An SRV record is a DNS record, which is used to redirect a domain name to a third-party server and employ it for a service different from a site. This can be a Voice-Over-IP server, a video streaming service, an instant messaging system, and so forth. When an SRV record is set up, you are able to specify an Internet Protocol that the domain address will use and the port, that will be employed to connect to the remote server. Additionally, in case you have a few SRV records for the exact same service, you'll be able to set different priorities and weights for every single one of them, so you can send out the load between many machines. Such a record allows you to use the same domain address or subdomains under it with different providers, so you could employ it for many purposes even if you are unable to get all of the services from just one provider.
SRV Records in Shared Hosting
You'll be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domain addresses which you host inside a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record that you create will be active. Hepsia comes with a highly intuitive interface and all it will take to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few 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 needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number illustrates the time in seconds for the record to stay active in case you modify it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.
SRV Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
A brand new SRV record may be created in just seconds for every domain name hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company. The Hepsia hosting CP, employed to control the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy-to-use interface, so you'll 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 set up records with the DNS administration tool, which is part of Hepsia and once you select SRV for the type, a few text boxes will appear. You have to input the service, port number and protocol information as well as the record value in them and the new record is going to be active shortly after that. The priority and weight options can be set to every value between 1 and 100, the standard one being 10. You'll be able to adjust each of the two in case the other provider has required you to do so. In addition, the Time To Live (TTL) value, which indicates the duration a record is going to remain working if changed or deleted, can also be modified from the default 3600 seconds.