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 website. By setting up a few SRV records, you can use the domain name with different companies and direct it to several servers at the same time, each server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but point 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 several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

You are going to be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly 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 the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except when the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.