An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Basically, you are able to use your Internet domain not just for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, while you still have an Internet site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it will employ, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain name for a number of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You will be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia features a really user-friendly interface and all it will take 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 as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you could leave unless the other company needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A new SRV record can be created within seconds for each domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to set up records using the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record will be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You can change each of the two in case the other provider has requested you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain working if changed or deleted, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.