SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to several servers at a time, every single 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 even set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
Provided you have a shared hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are managed by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and as soon as you log in to your web hosting account and proceed to the DNS Records section, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes with the required data and your new SRV record is going to be active in a few hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it will remain active after you edit or remove it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Because we understand how irritating it may be to manage DNS records, we'll present you with an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as part of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to create an SRV record with no problems. We've got a step-by-step guide, that'll make things so much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to input the details that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and the weight values, you can leave those two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a few minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but typically the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value reveals the time the record will continue existing after it's changed or deleted.