SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different providers and point it to many servers simultaneously, each 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 may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 real software running on a number of machines with different companies. 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 Hosting
Provided you have a cloud hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain address included in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia CP and as soon as you sign in to your website hosting account and go 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 in several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you'd 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 needs. If required, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it'll 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 unless you specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a brand new SRV record for every single domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than a few mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can create any record that you need and when you select SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to type in the service, the protocol, the record value and also the port number and you'll be all set. Furthermore, if the other company requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a number of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain live in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.