SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to a number of servers at once, each server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.