SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to many servers at a time, every single server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but point 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 example, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain included in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and once you sign in to your website hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record will be active in a couple of hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you can even change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it will remain active after you modify or erase it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you’ll be able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A new SRV record could be created in just seconds for each domain name hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may 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 need to enter the service, port number and protocol information in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to adjust any of the two in case the other company has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain functioning if changed or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.