SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different providers and point it to several servers at the same time, each and every server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses that you host within a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia features a very user-friendly interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a few 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 except when the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.