An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers which run a specific service for a domain. In other words, you are able to use your Internet domain not only for a website, 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 set up the SRV record, you can pick what Internet Protocol it will employ, on which port the connection to the particular 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 exact same service. The second option allows you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different providers if the same one cannot provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain names that you host within a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it will take 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 as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave except if the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you edit it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.