An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers which run a particular service for a domain name. Basically, you can use your 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. Whenever you create the SRV record, you can choose what Internet Protocol it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The second option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain for a number of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one can't provide all services you need.
SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting
You're going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domains that you host inside a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any 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 really intuitive interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave except when the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.