SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which enables you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from a website. By setting up a few SRV records, you are able to use the domain with different companies and point it to many servers at a time, each and every server handling a separate service. You can specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the exact 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 instance, and have the actual software running on various machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain address included in it are controlled by our system, you will be able to set up any record that you need without difficulty, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and as soon as you log in to your hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you will simply need to fill a few boxes with the required information and your new SRV record is going to be active in several hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. When required, you may also edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it'll remain active after you modify or delete it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you don't specifically need a different one.