SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a particular service different from an Internet site. By setting up a number of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and direct it to many servers at the same time, 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 even set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual 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 that you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host a domain address within a cloud web hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you'll be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP. Our intuitive interface makes it much simpler to set up a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you will simply need to fill a couple of 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 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other provider has given you. As an extra option, you can 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 not required otherwise, you may leave the default value there.