An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Quite simply, you are able to use your domain not just for an Internet 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 select what IP it'll use, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain for a variety of purposes and even with different providers if the same one cannot provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You'll be able to create a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain names you host inside a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia features a highly intuitive interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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, that 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 stay active if you modify it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record could be created in just seconds for every domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record even though you may 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 part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to type the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational right after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You can adjust any one of the two in case the other company has requested you to do so. Also, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain working if edited or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.