SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to a number of servers at once, each server handling a different service. You are 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 2 records that are employed for the exact 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 specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
You'll be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host within a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a highly user-friendly interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new SRV record for any domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than several mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you could make any record you need and as soon as you select SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to enter the record value, the service, the protocol and the port number and you will be set. Optionally, in case the other company requires it, you'll also 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 2 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 could also define how long the new SRV record will remain live if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.