SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain with different providers and point it to many servers at a time, each server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
If you host a domain name in a web hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to create a new record in comparison to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 based upon which server you'd like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an added option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record may be created in a matter of seconds for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could create records through the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info plus the record value in them and the new record will be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You'll be able to change each of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain live if edited or deleted, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.