An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers that run a specific service for a domain. Basically, you’ll 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 even a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have an Internet site with it. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can select what Internet Protocol it's going to use, on which port the connection to the particular server will be established along with the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will allow you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain address for various purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Hosting

You will be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domains which you host in a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record is going to 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 can leave unless of course the other company requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because we realize how frustrating it could be to handle DNS records, we are going to provide you with an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as an element of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so when you host your domain addresses inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record with no troubles. We also have a step-by-step guide, which will make things so much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll have to enter the information that the other company has provided you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific directions to change the priority and / or the weight values, you may leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live in a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but normally the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value indicates the time the record will keep existing after it's modified or deleted.