An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers which run a particular service for a domain name. Put simply, you are able to use your Internet domain not only for a 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 a website with it. When you create the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it is going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will allow you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain address for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

You are going to be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia includes a very user-friendly interface and all it will require to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave except if the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record could be created in a matter of seconds for each domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could create records through the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you choose 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 will be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You are able to adjust each of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain live if edited or deleted, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.