SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different companies and direct it to numerous servers simultaneously, each server handling a separate 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 individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
If you host a domain within a shared hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with just a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you may set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want users to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If you're not asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a brand new SRV record for any domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than several clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS administration tool inside your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to create any record that you need and when you choose SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to input the service, the protocol, the record value and the port number and you'll be ready. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a lot of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a specific service. You can also outline how long the new SRV record will remain active if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.