SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a site. By creating a number of SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at the same time, every single server handling a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each and every machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are used for the very 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 specific software running on several machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use will depend on the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, bundled with each and every shared web hosting plan that we offer, gives you an easy means to create any DNS record you require for a domain or a subdomain inside your account. The easy-to-use interface is much more simple than what other companies provide and you won’t have to do anything more complicated than to fill a few boxes. For a new SRV record, you've got to sign in, check out the DNS Records section and click on the "New" button. Inside the small pop-up that'll appear, you have to input the service, protocol and port info. You can even set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, which will make a difference if you have no less than 2 servers dealing with the very same service. If you are using a machine from a different company, they might also require you to set a TTL value different from the standard 3600 seconds. This value determines how long the newly created record will remain operational after you modify it in the future.