An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to identify the servers that run a particular service for a domain. In other words, you’ll be able to use your domain name not only for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have an Internet site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established plus the priority and the weight of the record in case that there are several SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you could use the same domain many different purposes and even with different providers if the same one is not able to provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Web Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes a highly intuitive interface and all it will require 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 and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except if the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

By using a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you're going to be able to employ the easy to work with DNS management tool, that is a part of the in-house designed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. It is going to provide you with a rather simple interface to create a new record for every single domain address hosted inside the account, so if you need to use a domain for any purpose, you can create a brand new SRV record with just a couple of clicks. Using very simple text boxes, you'll need to enter the service, protocol and port number details, which you should have from the company providing you the service. Furthermore, you are going to be able to select what priority and weight the record will have if you intend to use a couple or more machines for the same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 if necessary. In addition, you are going to have the option to change the TTL value from the default 3600 seconds to a various different value - in this way setting the time this record is going to be live in the global DNS system after you remove it or edit it.