SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain with different companies and point it to several servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the very same service, but direct 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 actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
You will be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up 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 as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.