An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to define the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. In other words, you will be able to use your domain name not only 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. When you create the SRV record, you can select what IP it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain address many different purposes and even with different providers if the same one is not able to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

You'll be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will 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 can leave unless of course the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active if you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.