SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at the same time, each server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
If you host a domain in a cloud hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with just a few clicks within the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much easier to set up a new record in comparison to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you could set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you'd like clients to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can pick how long this record will be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
A completely new SRV record could be created in a matter of seconds for every domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may create records via the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol info plus the record value in them and the new record will be operational shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to adjust any of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain functioning if changed or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.