An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to identify the servers that run a specific service for a domain. Basically, you’re able to use your domain name not only for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have an Internet site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can choose what IP it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will allow you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain 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 are going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domain addresses that you host within a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather 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 standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you modify it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.