An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to outline the servers which run a certain service for a domain. Basically, you can use your domain name not only for a website, 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. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it'll employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established plus 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 permit you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different providers if the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You are going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domain names that you host within a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a very 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 is going to 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 can leave except if the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A brand new SRV record could be created in just seconds for every single domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes 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'll be 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 will appear. You will need to type the service, port number and protocol details as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be live shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any of the two in case the other provider has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain working if changed or erased, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.