An SRV record is a DNS record, that is used to direct a domain to a third-party server and use it for a service different from a website. This can 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 name will use and the port, which is to be employed to connect to the remote server. Also, if you have numerous SRV records for the very same service, you could set various priorities and weights for every single one of them, in order to spread the load between a number of machines. Such a record allows you to use the same domain or subdomains under it with different companies, so you could employ it for various purposes even if you are unable to get all services from just one provider.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You are going to be able to create a new SRV record for any of the domains you host within a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. As long as the DNS records for the domain are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and just minutes later any new record which you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a really user-friendly interface and all it takes to set up an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol and the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless of course the other provider needs different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.