An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to identify the servers that run a particular service for a domain. In other words, you are able to use your domain not just for a web site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have an Internet site with it. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can pick what IP it'll employ, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established plus the priority and the weight of the record provided that there are several SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you can use the same domain many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services that you need.
SRV Records in Web Hosting
You are going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domains you host within a shared web 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 without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you create will be active. Hepsia includes a rather user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless of course the other provider demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a new SRV record for every single domain hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and will require no more than a couple of clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, you can create any record you need and once you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you will have to type in the record value, the protocol, the service and the port number and you'll be ready. Optionally, if the other service provider requires it, you will also be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got quite a lot of possibilities if you use many servers for a particular service. You could also define how long the new SRV record will remain active in case you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.