SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to a number of servers at once, every single server managing a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
If you host a domain in a shared hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much simpler to create a new record compared with other hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will only need to fill a couple of boxes and you will 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 in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want clients to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an additional option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record may be created within just seconds for every single domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to set up records using the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol details along with the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You can adjust any of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain functioning if edited or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.