SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different companies and point it to several servers at once, each and every server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain 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 client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address added in it are managed by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and as soon as you log in to your website hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record will be active within a couple of hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If required, you can even modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it'll remain active after you change or remove it. The default TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you’ll be able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a completely new SRV record for any domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than just a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool in your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to create any record you need and when you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll have to input the service, the protocol, the record value as well as the port number and you'll be all set. Furthermore, if the other company requires it, you are also going to be able to set the weight and priority values in case they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a number of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a specific service. You may also specify how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.