An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to identify the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. Quite simply, you will be able to use your domain not just for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. When you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it's going to use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will permit you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain address for a number of purposes and even with different providers if the same one is unable to provide all services that you need.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You're going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for any of the domains that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record that you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive 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 the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you edit it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A new SRV record could be created within seconds for any domain name hosted within 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 will be able to create any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you are able to set up records via the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be working soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You are able to change any one of the two in case the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain live if edited or deleted, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.