SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain with different providers and direct it to a number of servers at the same time, every single server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any of the domain names you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia includes a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in 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, which you can leave except when the other company demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you modify it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.