An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to define the servers which run a specific service for a domain name. In other words, you’re able to use your domain name not just for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it is going to use, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established in addition to the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The second option allows you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this kind of DNS records, you could use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different companies in case the same one can't provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names which you host within a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them effortlessly through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record which you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly user-friendly interface and all it will take 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 the other company needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active if you edit it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As we know how irritating it could be to handle DNS records, we're going to offer you an easy-to-use DNS administration instrument as a part of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel, so if you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record with no complications. We have a step-by-step guide, that'll make things much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you will need to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific recommendations to change the priority and / or the weight values, you could leave those two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) may also be set to a custom value, but usually the standard value of 3600 seconds is used for almost all records. This value reveals the time the record will keep existing after it is changed or removed.