An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry employed to outline the servers that run a particular service for a domain name. Put simply, you are able to use your Internet domain not just for a 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 a website with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it's going to employ, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established along with the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The second option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain address for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is unable to provide all services you require.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain address added in it are handled by our system, you'll be able to set up any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and as soon as you log in to your hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you will simply have to fill several boxes with the necessary info and your new SRV record is going to be active in a couple of hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you'd like to use plus the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you need to set up your system or what the third-party provider wants. If required, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which shows how long it'll remain active after you modify or remove it. The default TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you can leave it unless you specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A completely new SRV record may be created in a matter of seconds for each domain address hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could set up records through the DNS management tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to enter the service, port number and protocol information in addition to the record value in them and the new record is going to be operational right after that. The priority and weight options could be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to adjust any of the two if the other provider has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain live if changed or deleted, can also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.