SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to many 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 every machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 actual software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our user-friendly interface makes it much easier to create a new record in comparison with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you may set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like users to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. Unless required otherwise, you may leave the default value there.