An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers that run a specific service for a domain name. Quite simply, you can use your domain not only for a web site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. When you set up the SRV record, you can pick what IP 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 a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain many different purposes and even with different companies if the same one can't provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for each of the domain addresses which you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without difficulty via 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 take to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record is going to 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 requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.