SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you’re able to use the domain name with different companies and direct it to several servers at once, each and every server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values which you have set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you host a domain address inside a cloud hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you'll be able to set up a new SRV record with a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia CP. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to set up a new record compared with other web hosting Control Panels, so if you want an SRV record, you'll simply have to fill a couple of boxes and you will be ready. 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 two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you would like users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that is measured in seconds. If not requested otherwise, you can leave the default value there.