SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different companies and direct it to a number of servers at once, each server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names which you host inside a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a very intuitive interface and all it will require 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 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 demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.