SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain with different companies and point it to several servers at the same time, each server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, 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 that you've set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name in a shared hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you'll be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our easy to navigate interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few 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 two you may set any value in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you would like customers to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an additional option, you can choose how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If not asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.