An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers that run a particular service for a domain name. Put simply, you can use your 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 an Internet site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you can pick what Internet Protocol it is going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have several 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 may use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different companies in case the same one is not able to 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 any of the domains which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them effortlessly in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a very user-friendly interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless the other company demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.