SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain for a particular service different from an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you will be able to use the domain name with different providers and direct it to numerous servers at once, every single server handling a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are used for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you host a domain address within a shared web hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you're going to be able to create a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it much easier to set up a new record in comparison to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can choose how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you could leave the default value there.