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 few SRV records, you are able to use the domain name with different companies and point it to many servers at once, each and every server managing a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You can even set individual priorities and weight for 2 records which are employed for the same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on various machines with different providers. Which one a customer of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

The Hepsia CP, which comes with each and every hosting plan we offer, will provide you with an easy means to set up any DNS record you require for a domain or a subdomain within your account. The user-friendly interface is much more simple than what other companies provide and you'll not have to do anything more difficult than to fill a few boxes. For a new SRV record, you've got to log in, go to the DNS Records section and click on the "New" button. Within the small pop-up which will appear, you have to enter the service, protocol and port info. You can also set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, which will matter if you have no less than 2 servers handling the exact same service. If you work with a machine from a different company, they could also require you to set a TTL value different from the standard 3600 seconds. This value specifies how long the newly created record is going to remain operational after you change it in the future.