SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain address with different providers and forward it to numerous servers simultaneously, every single server managing a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single 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. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address 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 depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You will be able to set up a brand new SRV record for each of the domain names that you host within a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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 default values, which you could leave unless of course the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you change it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.