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. Quite simply, you can use your domain not just for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a site with it. If you create the SRV record, you can choose what IP it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The second option will allow you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is unable to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domain names which you host in a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very user-friendly interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave except if the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active when you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.