An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers which run a specific service for a domain name. Quite simply, you’ll be able to use your domain not only for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, while you still have a site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can choose what IP it is 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 a number of SRV records for the very same service. The second option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you could use the same domain name many different purposes and even with different companies if the same one cannot provide all services you need.
SRV Records in Hosting
You will be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without any difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record that you set up will be active. Hepsia features a highly user-friendly interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just 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 could leave except when 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 be active if you modify it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A brand new SRV record can be created within seconds for each and every domain address hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to manage the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a really 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 can create records through the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You will need to enter the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be live soon after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You can change each of the two if the other company has required you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain functioning if changed or removed, could also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.