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 a website. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to a number of servers at the same time, each and every server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain address included in it are managed by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and as soon as you sign in to your web hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll only have to fill a few boxes with the required data and your new SRV record will be active in a few hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If necessary, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it is going to remain active after you change or delete it. The standard TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record could be created within seconds for each domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used 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 may set up records via the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol information along with the record value in them and the new record will be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to adjust any one of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain working if changed or erased, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.