SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain name for a specific service different from a site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to several servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host a domain in a cloud website hosting account from our company and we control the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with just a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much easier to set up a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll only have to fill a few 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 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like customers to access first or what recommendations the other provider has given you. As an additional option, you may choose how long this record is going to be active after you change 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.