An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to identify the servers that run a certain service for a domain name. In other words, you’ll be able to use your Internet domain not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can select 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 there are several SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one cannot provide all services that you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You are going to be able to set up a completely new SRV record for each 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 with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia includes 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 plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you modify it or remove it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

By using a semi-dedicated server solution from us, you're going to be able to take advantage of our easy to work with DNS management tool, which is a part of the in-house built Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It'll give you a rather simple interface to create a new record for each domain name hosted inside the account, so if you need to use a domain address for any purpose, you could create a completely new SRV record with only a few clicks. Through very simple text boxes, you'll have to input the service, protocol and port number details, which you must have from the company providing you with the service. In addition, you'll be able to pick what priority and weight the record will have if you are going to use a couple or more machines for the very same service. The standard value for them is 10, but you may set any other value between 1 and 100 if required. In addition, you are going to have the option to change the TTL value from the standard 3600 seconds to a various different value - in this way setting the time this record will be active in the global DNS system after you erase it or modify it.