SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and forward it to many servers at a time, each and every server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain name 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 customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you host a domain name inside a cloud web hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to work with interface makes it much easier to create a new record in comparison to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be all set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like clients to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you could leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record may be created in just seconds for any domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to create any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can 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 will appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to adjust any of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain working if edited or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.