SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names you host within a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave except if the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you change it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.