SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain for a certain service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different providers and forward it to numerous servers at once, each and every server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for two records which are employed for the exact same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the specific software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a client of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.
SRV Records in Hosting
If you host a domain name inside a hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records part of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our user-friendly interface makes it much simpler to create a new record in comparison with other hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you will simply have to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be set. This includes the protocol and also the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last two you can set any value in between 1 and 100 based on which server you want clients to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an added option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you change it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. Unless asked otherwise, you may leave the default value there.