An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers which run a particular service for a domain name. Put simply, you are able to use your domain name not just for a web site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can choose what Internet Protocol it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain address many different purposes and even with different companies if the same one is unable to provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You're going to be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domain addresses you host in a shared web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very user-friendly interface and all it will take to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless of course the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to stay active when 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 may be created in just seconds for every single domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with 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 could set up records through the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol info plus the record value in them and the new record will be live right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You are able to adjust any of the two if the other provider has asked you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record will remain live if changed or erased, may also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.