An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to outline the servers that run a specific service for a domain. Basically, you can use your domain not just for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have an Internet site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it'll use, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The second option will allow you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain address for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very user-friendly interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave except if the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you edit it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.