SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to a number of servers at once, each server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses you host inside a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a really intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except if the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.