SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to several servers at a time, every single server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Website Hosting
You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain names which you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it will take to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other company demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With a semi-dedicated server package from us, you're going to be able to employ the intuitive DNS administration tool, that is a part of the in-house designed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It will provide you with a simple user interface to create a new record for each domain address hosted inside the account, so if you would like to use a domain name for any purpose, you could create a new SRV record with a couple of mouse clicks. Via very simple text boxes, you will need to enter the service, protocol and port number details, which you should have from the company providing you with the service. Additionally, you are going to be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you intend to use a couple or more machines for the exact same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you can set any other value between 1 and 100 if required. In addition, you have the option to adjust the TTL value from the default 3600 seconds to any other value - thus setting the time this record will be active in the global DNS system after you erase it or edit it.