SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to numerous servers at a time, each and every server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for two records that are used 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 various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it requires to set up 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 the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless the other company needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.