An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to define the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. Basically, you’ll be able to use your domain name not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a website with it. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it will employ, 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 exact same service. The latter option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain address for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is unable to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain names 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’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it takes to create 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, which you could leave except when the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A completely new SRV record could be created in a matter of seconds for every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to create records through the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You have to type the service, port number and protocol information plus the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to change any of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain active if changed or deleted, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.