SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a particular service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to numerous servers simultaneously, 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 not be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain name 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 customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a shared web hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to work with interface makes it much easier to create a new record in comparison to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will only have to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like customers to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not required otherwise, you could leave the default value there.