SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to many servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two 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 address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of 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 Web Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domains which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly 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 as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.