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 an Internet site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and point it to numerous servers at once, every single 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 may as well set different priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using 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 actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
You'll be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domain addresses which you host within a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia features a really intuitive interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave except when the other company needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.