An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers which run a specific service for a domain name. Put simply, you’re able to use your domain not only for a web site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you can choose what Internet Protocol it is going to use, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will permit you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you can use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain names which you host inside a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a rather user-friendly interface and all it will require 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 and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except when the other company requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record could be created within just seconds for each and every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even if you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can set up records with the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record will be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You may adjust each of the two if the other company has asked you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain functioning if edited or erased, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.