SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to a number of servers at the same time, each and every server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even 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 employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
You are going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domains you host in a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia features a really user-friendly interface and all it requires to create 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 default values, which you could leave except if the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.