SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different companies and point it to numerous servers at a time, each server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
In case you have a shared website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and once you log in to your web hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill a couple of boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record will be active in several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. When required, you can even change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it's going to remain active after you edit or delete it. The default TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you will be able to leave it unless you specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A brand new SRV record may be created within seconds for each domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a rather 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 are able to create records through the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info as well as the record value in them and the new record will be active right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You can change any of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain functioning if changed or erased, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.