An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers which run a certain service for a domain name. In other words, you are able to use your domain name not just for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. When you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The latter option allows you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain address for a number of purposes and even with different providers if the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia CP, bundled with each and every cloud website hosting package that we offer, gives you an easy means to set up any DNS record you require for a domain address or a subdomain inside your account. The easy-to-use interface is a lot simpler compared to what other companies provide and you won’t have to do anything more complex than to fill just a few boxes. For a new SRV record, you will need to log in, go to the DNS Records section and then click the "New" button. Inside the small pop-up that will appear, you have to type in the service, protocol and port details. You can also set the priority and weight values, which should be between 1 and 100, that will matter if you have no less than two servers dealing with the very same service. If you are using a machine from a different company, they may also ask you to set a TTL value different from the default 3600 seconds. This value specifies how long the newly created record will remain operational after you change it in the future.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new SRV record may be created in just seconds for every single domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, employed to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, includes a rather easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to create 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 via the DNS administration tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to enter the service, port number and protocol information along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be live soon after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You could adjust each of the two if the other provider has asked you to do so. Moreover, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record is going to remain active if edited or erased, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.