SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to numerous servers at the same time, each server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for two records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting
You're going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domains which you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it will take 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 also 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 stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.