SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to use a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a number of SRV records, you can use the domain with different providers and forward it to many servers at a time, each server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but direct 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 example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name inside 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 within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our easy to navigate interface makes it more simple to set up a new record in comparison with other website hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will only need to fill a few boxes and you will be set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not asked otherwise, you can leave the default value there.