An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to outline the servers that run a specific service for a domain name. Quite simply, you will 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. Whenever you create the SRV record, you can select what IP it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the particular server will be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain address for a variety of purposes and even with different companies if the same one is unable to provide all services you require.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You will be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domain addresses you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them without any difficulty in 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 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 is going to 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 can leave except if the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number indicates 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 Servers
A new SRV record could be created within just seconds for every domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you'll be able to create records via the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to enter the service, port number and protocol details as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be live soon after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to change any one of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain working if changed or deleted, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.