[GUIDE] Setting Up SRV Records

Hello, today I'm going to show you how to setup SRV records as when I first started I had no clue and I think it would be the same for most people. I use Name Cheap as my domain registrar, so it may not look the same for you.

1) You need to go to the page where you create subdomains and SRV records (For me it's 'All Host Records').
2) First of all, you need to create a subdomain (or use the main domain). Set it up like this:

For me, the final result will be 'join.ultimamc.net'. Replace the 'Number IP' with the IP of your server (Obv. not sharing incase of DDOS).
3) Setting up the SRV records. This is only needed if your port is not :25565. Set it up in a similar way:

In the _SERVICE box put '_minecraft'. In the _PROTCOL box, type '_tcp' as it is the protcol minecraft uses. In the PRIORITY box type '0'. In the WEIGHT box type '5'. In the PORT box, type the server's port. Mine is 36204, so I type that in there. Now in the TARGET box, type subdomain.domain.extension (Use the subdomain you created earlier, for me, I would enter 'join.ultimamc.net'). Now click save and wait between 1 - 30 minutes for the changes to take place.
Here's a similar setup for just UltimaMC.net (No subdomain):


So now if I hop onto 'ultimamc.net', I join the server:


and it works! Leave a like if this helped you! <3

 

I'm talking about setting up as others may find it confusing.

 

Shared hosting is cheaper. Also, say you want 'UltimaMC.net' and 'Pixelmon.UltimaMC.net', you couldn't have 2 :25565 ports, but you could use an SRV record to remove the port from the IP.