SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at once, every single server managing a different service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With 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 companies. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domains that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a very user-friendly interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus 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 demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.