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 couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to numerous servers at the same time, each 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 may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host inside a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a really intuitive interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except if 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 when you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.