SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a particular service different from a website. By setting up a couple of SRV records, you can use the domain name with different providers and direct it to several servers at a time, every single server managing a separate service. You could specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set different priorities and weight for 2 records which are used for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ 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 depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are controlled by our system, you're going to be able to set up any record that you need with ease, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and once you sign in to your web hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you will simply need to fill a few boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record will be active in a few hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use as well as the priority and the weight of the new record depending on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If required, you can also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which indicates how long it's going to remain active after you modify or erase it. The default TTL value for almost all records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.