SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to several servers at once, each server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but point 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 instance, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host inside a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just 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, that you can leave except when the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.