An SRV record is a DNS record, which is used to point a domain name to a third-party server and employ it for some service different from an Internet site. This can be a Voice-Over-IP server, a video streaming service, an instant messaging system, etc. When an SRV record is set up, you can specify an Internet Protocol the domain will use and the port, that will be used to connect to the remote server. Furthermore, provided that you have numerous SRV records for the very same service, you could set different priorities and weights for every one of them, in order to send out the load between a number of machines. Such a record allows you to use the same domain name or subdomains under it with different companies, so you're able to use it for various purposes even if you are unable to get all of the services from just one provider.

SRV Records in Cloud Hosting

You are going to be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domains that you host within a shared web hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them with ease via the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it will take 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 default values, that you can leave except when the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number indicates the time in seconds for the record to stay active when you change it or delete it at some point, the default one being 3600.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new SRV record for every single domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server account on our end will be very easy and will take no more than several mouse clicks using a user-friendly interface. Via the DNS management tool inside your Hepsia hosting CP, you are able to 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 input the record value, the service, the protocol and the port number and you'll be set. Additionally, in case the other company requires it, you're also going to be able to set the weight and priority values if they have to be different from the standard value, which is 10. The range for those two options is from 1 to 100, so you have quite a lot of possibilities if you use many servers for a specific service. You could also determine how long the newly created SRV record will remain active 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.