SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and forward it to several servers at the same time, each server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the very 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 example, and have the actual software running on several 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 Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, included with each and every Linux cloud website hosting plan we offer, gives you an easy means to create any DNS record that you need for a domain address or a subdomain within your account. The user-friendly interface is a lot simpler in comparison with what other companies provide and you won’t have to do anything more complex than to fill a few boxes. For a new SRV record, you've got to log in, navigate to the DNS Records section and click on the "New" button. Inside the small pop-up that will appear, you have to type in the service, protocol and port info. You can even set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, which will matter if you have at least two servers dealing with the very same service. If you work with a machine from a different provider, they might also ask you to set a TTL value different from the default 3600 seconds. This value determines how long the newly created record is going to remain functional after you change it in the future.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A new SRV record may be created in just seconds for every single domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will 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 with the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to type the service, port number and protocol information along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be working soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could adjust any of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain working if changed or removed, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.