SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and forward it to several servers at once, each and every server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you host a domain name inside a shared web hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared to other hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you'll be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you'd like customers to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an additional option, you can choose how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A new SRV record may be created within just seconds for any domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could create records via the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol information in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You are able to change any one of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain working if edited or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.