An SRV record is a DNS record, which is used to point a domain to a third-party server and use it for some service different from a website. This may 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 that the domain address will use and the port, which will be employed to connect to the remote server. In addition, in case you have many SRV records for the very same service, you are able to set individual priorities and weights for each and every one of them, so you can distribute the load between a number of machines. Such a record allows you to employ the same domain name or subdomains under it with different companies, so you could employ it for many purposes even if you can't get all services from one service provider.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you host a domain within a shared web hosting account from our company and we manage the DNS records for it, you will be able to create a new SRV record with a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Our intuitive interface makes it more simple to create a new record in comparison with other hosting Control Panels, so if you require an SRV record, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes and you'll be all set. This includes the protocol as well as the port number, the value i.e. the actual record, the priority plus the weight. For the last 2 you could set any value in between 1 and 100 depending on which server you'd like users to access first or what instructions the other company has given you. As an extra option, you can select how long this record is going to be active after you edit it or delete it - the so-called Time To Live time, which is measured in seconds. If you're not asked otherwise, you could leave the default value there.

SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A completely new SRV record may be created within seconds for every single domain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts, comes with a really easy-to-use interface, so you will be able to set up any DNS record even though you may have no previous experience with such matters. After you sign in to the account, you could create records using the DNS management tool, which is an element of Hepsia and once you pick SRV for the type, a few text boxes are going to appear. You will need to input the service, port number and protocol info along with the record value in them and the new record is going to be live right after that. The priority and weight options can be set to any value between 1 and 100, the default one being 10. You may adjust each of the two if the other provider has requested you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record will remain working if changed or removed, could also be modified from the standard 3600 seconds.