SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to a number of servers at once, every single server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but forward 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 actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain address included in it are managed by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you log in to your hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll simply need to fill a few boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record is going to be active in a couple of hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number you'd like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If necessary, you may also modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it will remain active after you modify or delete it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new SRV record for every single domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than a couple of mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you could make any record that you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to type in the service, the protocol, the record value along with the port number and you'll be ready. Additionally, if the other service provider requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a great deal of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. You may also define how long the new SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.