An SRV record is a DNS record, that is used to forward a domain to a third-party server and employ it for some service different from an Internet site. This may be a Voice-Over-IP server, a video streaming service, an instant messaging system, and so on. When an SRV record is created, you can specify an Internet Protocol that the domain name will use and the port, that will be used to connect to the remote server. Also, in case you have many SRV records for the very same service, you could set individual priorities and weights for every one of them, allowing you to send out the load between several machines. Such a record will allow you to employ the same domain or subdomains under it with different companies, so you're able to employ it for different purposes even if you are unable to get all of the services from one provider.

SRV Records in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to create a completely new SRV record for each of the domain addresses that you host within a shared web hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Provided that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you will be able to manage them without difficulty via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia features a rather user-friendly interface and all it requires 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 and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you could leave unless of course the other provider requires different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number shows the time in seconds for the record to be active when you change it or remove it at some point, the default one being 3600.