An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers which run a particular service for a domain. Basically, you can use your domain not just for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even 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 pick what IP it'll employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain for various purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services that you need.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for each of the domain names which you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a highly user-friendly interface and all it will require to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will 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 could 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 edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A completely new SRV record could be created in just seconds for every domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a very easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up 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 via the DNS management 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 type the service, port number and protocol info in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be operational soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You'll be able to change any one of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain working if changed or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.