SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a particular service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to a number of servers at once, each and every server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you host a domain address in a shared website hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record in comparison to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will simply 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 plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record will be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you could leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
A brand new SRV record may be created within just seconds for every single domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can create records via the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol details as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be active soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any of the two in case the other provider has asked you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain functioning if changed or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.