SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different companies and point it to numerous servers at once, every single server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the very same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
You are going to be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a rather intuitive interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless 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 edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.