An SRV record, which is short for Service record, is a DNS entry employed to identify the servers that run a certain service for a domain name. In other words, you will be able to use your domain not just for a website, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, while you still have a site with it. When you create the SRV record, you can pick what IP it will employ, on which port the connection to the specific server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the very same service. The second option will enable you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this kind of DNS records, you may use the same domain address for various purposes and even with different companies in case the same one can't provide all services you need.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Because we recognize how aggravating it may be to deal with DNS records, we're going to offer you an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as part of our custom Hepsia CP, so when you host your domains within a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll be able to create an SRV record with no issues. We've got a step-by-step guide, that will make things much easier. Using a user-friendly interface, you'll have to input the information that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they've given you specific recommendations to change the priority and the weight values, you could leave those two options as they are and your new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) can also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for the majority of records. This value shows the time the record will keep existing after it is edited or deleted.