An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers that run a particular service for a domain name. In other words, you can use your domain not just for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a website with it. When you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established plus the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have several SRV records for the exact 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 name for a number of purposes and even with different companies in case the same one is not able to provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You will be able to create a completely new SRV record for any one of the domain names which you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a highly intuitive interface and all it will require to set up 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 and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.