SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By creating a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to a number of servers simultaneously, every single server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
You'll be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it will take to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Since we acknowledge how annoying it may be to manage DNS records, we will provide you with an easy-to-use DNS management tool as an element of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record with no difficulties. We have a step-by-step guide, which will make things much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will have to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific directions to modify the priority and the weight values, you can leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) may also be set to a custom value, but normally the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value indicates the time the record will continue existing after it's edited or deleted.