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 an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain with different companies and forward it to a number of servers simultaneously, every single server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use 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 will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting
In case you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain added in it are controlled by our system, you are going to be able to set up any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and once you sign in to your hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill several boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record will be active in a few hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If necessary, you can even modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it is going to remain active after you change or erase it. The standard TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you’ll be able to leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a new SRV record for every single domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than several clicks via a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you are able to create any record that you need and when you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to input the record value, the protocol, the service as well as the port number and you'll be ready. In addition, in case the other service provider requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if 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 lot of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a given service. Also, you can define how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you delete it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.