An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers that run a specific service for a domain. Quite simply, you are able to use your Internet domain not just for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have an Internet site with it. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it'll employ, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record provided that you have a number of 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 may use the same domain many different purposes and even with different companies in case the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

You'll be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domain addresses you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name 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 that you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a really intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of 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 except when the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because we recognize how frustrating it may be to handle DNS records, we're going to present you with an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as a part of our custom Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from us, you're going to be able to create an SRV record without troubles. We also have a step-by-step guide, that will make things so much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you will need to input the info that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to modify the priority and / or the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) may also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value shows the time the record will keep existing after it's modified or erased.