SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to numerous servers at a time, every single server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having 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 actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You'll be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names which you host in a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you are able to manage them with ease through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it will require to create an SRV record is to fill in a few 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 except when the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you edit it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.