An SRV record is a DNS record, which is used to forward a domain to a third-party server and employ it for a service different from an Internet site. This could be a Voice-Over-IP server, a video streaming service, an instant messaging system, and many others. When an SRV record is set up, you are able to specify an Internet Protocol that the domain will use and the port, that will be used to connect to the remote server. In addition, if you have numerous SRV records for the very same service, you can set individual priorities and weights for every one of them, so that you can send out the load between several machines. Such a record allows you to use the same domain or subdomains under it with different providers, so you could use it for many purposes even if you cannot get all the services from just one provider.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to create a new SRV record for any one of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared web hosting account on our groundbreaking cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a very intuitive interface and all it takes to set up 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, which you could 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 stay active in case you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since we acknowledge how frustrating it may be to manage DNS records, we will provide you with an easy-to-use DNS administration tool as a part of our custom-made Hepsia CP, so when you host your domain names inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to set up an SRV record without problems. We have a step-by-step guide, that'll make things much easier. Using an intuitive interface, you'll need to type in the info that the other company has supplied you with - protocol, port number and service. Unless they have given you specific recommendations to change the priority and / or the weight values, you can leave these two options as they are and your brand new record will go live within a couple of minutes. The Time To Live option (TTL) could also be set to a custom value, but usually the default value of 3600 seconds is used for most records. This value displays the time the record will keep existing after it's modified or deleted.