SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to several servers simultaneously, each and every server handling a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that 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 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 client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host a domain name within a cloud website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to create a new SRV record with only a few clicks in the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared to other hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will simply have to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like customers to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an added 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 is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.