An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to identify the servers which run a particular service for a domain name. Basically, you’ll be able to use your Internet domain not just for a website, 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 website with it. Whenever you create the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it's going to use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established plus 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. With this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one can't provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domains you host inside a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a really user-friendly 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, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you change it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.