SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and point it to numerous servers simultaneously, each server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the exact same service, but direct 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 instance, and have the actual software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
In case you have a shared hosting account with us 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 sign in to your website hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill a couple of boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record will be active in several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you may also change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it is going to remain active after you modify or erase it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you will be able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
A brand new SRV record could be created in a matter of seconds for every single domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a really 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'll be able to set up records through the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to type the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any one of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain live if changed or removed, may also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.