An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to outline the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. In other words, you will be able to use your domain not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a website with it. If you set up the SRV record, you can choose what Internet Protocol it's 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 provided that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The second option will allow you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domain names you host within a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia features a rather intuitive 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 is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave unless of course the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active when you change 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 single domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a rather easy-to-use interface, so you'll 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 could create records through the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be active right after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You can adjust any of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain active if changed or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.