SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to a number of servers at once, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain included in it are controlled by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia CP and once you log in to your website hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you'll simply need to fill several boxes with the necessary data and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If needed, you can also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it will remain active after you modify or remove it. The standard TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record may be created in just seconds for every domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a rather easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to create any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records through the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You have to type the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record will be operational right after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may change each of the two in case the other provider has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain working if edited or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.