SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By creating a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different providers and forward it to several servers at the same time, each and every server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Website Hosting
You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain names which you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a really intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave unless of course the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Through a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you are going to be able to use the easy to navigate DNS management tool, that is a part of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. It's going to provide you with a rather simple interface to set up a new record for every single domain name hosted inside the account, so if you would like to use a domain for any purpose, you can create a completely new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks. Via simple text boxes, you will need to input the service, protocol and port number details, which you ought to have from the company providing you the service. Also, you are going to be able to choose what priority and weight the record will have if you are going to use a couple or more machines for the same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 if required. In addition, you will have the option to change the TTL value from the default 3600 seconds to a various different value - this way setting the time this record is going to be active in the global DNS system after you remove it or modify it.