An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers that run a specific service for a domain. Quite simply, you can use your domain name not just for a web site, 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 an Internet site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The second option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different companies in case the same one can't provide all services you need.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
You will be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domains that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a highly intuitive interface and all it will take to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave unless of course the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you change it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.