SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you will be able to use the domain address with different providers and point it to several servers at once, each and every server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You can also set different priorities and weight for two records that are used for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are managed by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done with the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and when you sign in to your website hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you'll only need to fill a few boxes with the necessary data and your new SRV record will be active within a couple of hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If needed, you may also modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it will remain active after you modify or erase it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.