SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and point it to many servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you host a domain inside a cloud web hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you'll be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few clicks within the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes and you'll be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other company 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, that is measured in seconds. If not required otherwise, you could leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
A new SRV record may be created in just seconds for each and every domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could set up records via the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol info as well as the record value in them and the new record will be live right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may change any one of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain active if edited or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.