An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to outline the servers which run a certain service for a domain. Quite simply, you are able to use your domain not just for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record assuming that there are several SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will allow you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different companies if the same one is not able to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain names which you host in a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a really intuitive interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.