SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and direct it to a number of servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't 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. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You are going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names which you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia comes with a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except if the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.