SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to a number of servers at a time, each and every server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Website Hosting
If you host a domain address within a website hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want users 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 modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If not asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new SRV record for each and every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than just a few clicks using a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must type in the service, the protocol, the record value and the port number and you will be set. Optionally, if the other company requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you have a number of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.