An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Quite simply, you’re able to use your domain name not only for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a website with it. If you create the SRV record, you can pick what IP it will employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have several SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option allows you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you can use the same domain for various purposes and even with different providers if the same one is unable to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You're going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domains which you host within a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking 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 CP and just minutes later any new record which you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a rather user-friendly 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 will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave except if 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 be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record may be created within seconds for every domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with 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 can create records via the DNS administration tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol information plus the record value in them and the new record is going to be working right 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 any of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain active if edited or erased, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.