SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a particular service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different companies and direct it to numerous servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there won't be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain name in a cloud hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with just a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will only need to fill a few boxes and you will be set. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you could set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you'd like users to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not asked otherwise, you may leave the default value there.