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 a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain with different providers and point it to a number of servers at once, each and every server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the very same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours is going to use will depend on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain name added in it are handled by our system, you'll be able to set up any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and when you log in to your hosting account and go to the DNS Records section, you'll only need to fill a couple of boxes with the required info and your new SRV record will be active in several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use and also the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you want to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If needed, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it's going to remain active after you edit or remove it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you will be able to leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.