An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers which run a particular service for a domain. Quite simply, you can use your Internet domain not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, while you still have a site with it. If you create the SRV record, you can choose what Internet Protocol it's going to use, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The second option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain for a number of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services you require.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You'll be able to set up a completely new SRV record for any of the domain addresses that you host within a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a really intuitive interface and all it requires 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 plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you change it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
A completely new SRV record may be created within just seconds for every domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you can set up records via the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you choose SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may adjust any of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain functioning if edited or deleted, may also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.