SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different providers and direct it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
If you host a domain inside a cloud hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to work with interface makes it much easier to set up a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can choose how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not asked otherwise, you may leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A new SRV record can be created within seconds for each domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can set up records with the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to enter the service, port number and protocol information in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain active if changed or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.