SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to several servers at once, every single server managing a separate service. You are 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 that are used 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 real software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host a domain inside a cloud website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to set up a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll 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 two you may set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can select how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. Unless required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new SRV record for any domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will take no more than several mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record that you need and as soon as you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to insert the record value, the protocol, the service and the port number and you will be all set. Furthermore, in case the other service provider requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values in case they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you will have a great deal of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a given service. You can also determine how long the newly created SRV record will remain active in case you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.