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 an Internet site. By creating a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different providers and forward it to many servers at the same time, each server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the 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 example, and have the actual software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values which you have set.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
You'll be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a really user-friendly interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.