SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to a number of servers at a time, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two 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 use your domain 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 customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

You're going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domain addresses which you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record which you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will 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 the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active if you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.