SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a website. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and direct it to several servers at once, each server managing 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 individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 real 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 Hosting

You'll be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it will require to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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 default values, which you could leave unless the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.