SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to numerous servers at a time, each server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also 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. By having 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 a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a new SRV record for every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and is going to take no more than several mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool in your Hepsia hosting CP, you could make any record that you need and once you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will need to input the record value, the protocol, the service along with the port number and you will be all set. Optionally, if the other company requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a lot of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a specific service. Also, you can define how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.