SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to a number of servers simultaneously, 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 can even set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You'll be able to set up a brand new SRV record for each of the domains that you host in 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 will be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.