SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to several servers at the same time, each server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domains which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a really user-friendly 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 unless the other company demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Since we know how frustrating it could be to manage DNS records, we are going to provide you with an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain names inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to set up an SRV record with no complications. We've got a step-by-step guide, which will make things that much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll have to input the details that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific recommendations to change the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave those two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but typically the default value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value indicates the time the record will keep existing after it is modified or deleted.