An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers which run a specific service for a domain. Quite simply, you are able to use your Internet domain not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a site with it. When you create the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it will employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will allow you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain for various purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Hosting

You're going to be able to set up a new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Assuming 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 only minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia comes with a rather intuitive interface and all it will take 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 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 demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you change it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a completely new SRV record for every single domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than a couple of mouse clicks through a user-friendly interface. Through the DNS management tool in your Hepsia hosting CP, you could make any record that you need and as soon as you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to type in the service, the protocol, the record value as well as the port number and you will be set. Furthermore, if the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use many servers for a given service. You could also specify how long the newly created SRV record will remain active in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.