An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers which run a specific service for a domain. In other words, you’re able to use your Internet domain not just for a web site, 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 site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what IP it'll use, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established as well as 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 permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain for a variety of purposes and even with different companies in case the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You're going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a very user-friendly interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol as well as the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you modify it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a completely new SRV record for any domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than several mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool within your Hepsia website hosting CP, you could make any record you need and when you choose SRV as the type, several more textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must insert the service, the protocol, the record value along with the port number and you will be ready. In addition, in case the other service provider requires it, you'll also be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got lots of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. You can also determine how long the newly created SRV record will remain live in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.