SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a specific service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at once, every single server handling a separate service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
If you host a domain address in a shared hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you are going to be able to set up a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks inside the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it more simple to create a new record compared to other web hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll only need to fill a few boxes and you will be ready. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last two you could set any value in between 1 and 100 based upon which server you'd like customers to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can pick how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.