An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to define the servers that run a certain service for a domain. Basically, you’ll be able to use your Internet domain not just for a web site, 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 site with it. When you set up the SRV record, you can pick what IP it will use, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established as well as the priority and the weight of the record assuming that you have a number of SRV records for the exact same service. The second option will permit you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. Using this type of DNS records, you may use the same domain for a variety of purposes and even with different providers if the same one cannot provide all services you require.
SRV Records in Hosting
You're going to be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses that you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia features a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to create an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, that you can leave except if the other provider demands different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a completely new SRV record for every single domain name hosted within a semi-dedicated server account on our end is going to be very easy and is going to take no more than just a few clicks through a user-friendly interface. Using the DNS management tool within your Hepsia web hosting CP, you could make any record you need and when you pick SRV as the type, several additional textboxes will appear on your screen. There, you'll need to input the service, the protocol, the record value and also the port number and you will be all set. Additionally, if the other service provider requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values when they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for these two options is from 1 to 100, so you have a number of possibilities if you use a lot of servers for a particular service. You could also determine how long the newly created SRV record will remain live if you remove it in the future by setting a TTL (Time To Live) value for it. By default, the TTL is 3600 seconds.