An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry that is used to identify the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Quite simply, you can 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 website with it. Whenever you create the SRV record, you may choose what IP it will employ, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established plus 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 allow you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you can use the same domain name for a variety of purposes and even with different companies if the same one is not able to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain inside a shared hosting account from our company and we handle the DNS records for it, you will be able to set up a new SRV record with just a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it much easier to create a new record compared to other website hosting Control Panels, so if you need an SRV record, you will only need to fill a couple of boxes and you will be set. This includes the protocol and the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority and the weight. For the last 2 you can set any value between 1 and 100 depending on which server you want clients to access first or what recommendations the other company has given you. As an extra option, you may choose how long this record is going to be active after you modify it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, that’s measured in seconds. Unless required otherwise, you can leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A completely new SRV record may be created within seconds for each domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, which is used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record although you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you may set up records via the DNS management tool, which is a part of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You have to enter the service, port number and protocol info as well as the record value in them and the new record will be working shortly after that. The priority and weight options could be set to every value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could change any of the two in case the other company has asked you to do so. Additionally, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which reveals the duration a record is going to remain working if changed or erased, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.