An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to define the servers that run a specific service for a domain name. In other words, you are able to use your Internet domain not only for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a website with it. If you create 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 you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will allow you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain address many different purposes and even with different providers if the same one is unable to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domains that you host in a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a very intuitive interface and all it will require to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except if the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you change it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.