SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you can use the domain name with different providers and point it to a number of servers simultaneously, each and every server managing a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name within a shared 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 inside the DNS Records area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record in comparison with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll 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 and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want customers to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.