An SRV record is a DNS record, that is used to redirect a domain to a third-party server and employ it for some service different from a website. This could be a Voice-Over-IP server, a video streaming service, an instant messaging system, and many others. When an SRV record is created, you can specify an Internet Protocol the domain will use and the port, which is to be employed to connect to the remote server. Furthermore, in case you have a few SRV records for the very same service, you could set individual priorities and weights for every single one of them, in order to send out the load between several machines. Such a record will allow you to use the same domain address or subdomains under it with different providers, so you're able to use it for different purposes even if you are not able to get all the services from just one provider.

SRV Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for any of the domains that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you are able to manage them without difficulty in the respective section of your Hepsia CP and just minutes later any new record you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a really 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 will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, that you can leave unless the other company demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates 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

A new SRV record could be created within seconds for every single domain address hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, used to handle the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll be able to set up any DNS record even when you have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could set up records through the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You need to input the service, port number and protocol details in addition to the record value in them and the new record will be live right after that. The priority and weight options may be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You could adjust each of the two if the other company has requested you to do so. Furthermore, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which shows the duration a record will remain live if edited or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.