SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to many servers at once, every single server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain name 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 client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you are able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia features a rather intuitive interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except when the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active if you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Through a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you are going to be able to use our user-friendly DNS management tool, that is a part of the in-house designed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It will give you a very simple interface to create a new record for every single domain hosted within the account, so if you want to use a domain for any purpose, you can set up a new SRV record with just a couple of clicks. Via basic text boxes, you'll need to input the service, protocol and port number information, which you ought to have from the company offering you the service. In addition, you are going to be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you are planning to use a couple or more machines for the exact same service. The default value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 if needed. In addition, you have the option to adjust 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 delete it or modify it.