An SRV record, which means Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to define the servers that run a certain service for a domain name. Put simply, you will be able to use your domain name not only for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or even a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have a website with it. Whenever you set up the SRV record, you can pick what IP it will employ, on which port the connection to the specific server will be established along with the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have a number of SRV records for the very same service. The latter option will enable you to employ different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services you require.
SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting
You're going to be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domain addresses that you host in a shared website hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a very user-friendly interface and all it requires to create 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 standard values, that you can leave unless of course the other company needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to remain active in case you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a completely new SRV record for every single domain hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than several mouse clicks via a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS administration tool inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can create any record you need and when you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you must type in the record value, the service, the protocol and also the port number and you will be set. Optionally, if the other company requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the default value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you've got a great deal of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. You may also define how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you erase it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.