An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. Basically, you are able to use your domain name not only for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have an Internet site with it. If you create the SRV record, you can select what IP it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record assuming that there are several SRV records for the very same service. The second 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 for a variety of purposes and even with different companies if the same one cannot provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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 could leave except if the other company needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.