An SRV record, which signifies Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Quite simply, you can use your Internet domain not just for a site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, as an example, while you still have a website with it. If you create the SRV record, you can pick what IP it is going to employ, on which port the connection to the specific 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 very same service. The latter option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain name for a number of purposes and even with different providers in case the same one is not able to provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are managed by our system, you are going to be able to create any record that you need easily, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel and once you log in to your web hosting account and visit the DNS Records section, you will only have to fill a couple of boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record is going to be active within several hours. You can input the service, protocol and the port number which you want to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based upon how you would like to set up your system or what the third-party provider needs. If required, you can even modify the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it'll remain active after you edit or delete it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you will be able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a completely new SRV record for every domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will require no more than several clicks via a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool within your Hepsia web hosting CP, you can create any record that you need and when you select SRV as the type, several more 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 company requires it, you will also 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 these 2 options is from 1 to 100, so you will have lots of possibilities if you use a large number of servers for a given service. Also, you can determine how long the newly created SRV record will remain live in case you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.