Every device that's connected to the Internet has a unique identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a substantially greater number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside your hosting account, it won't take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or edit every record easily. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up which will appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% working within a maximum of one hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a couple of really easy steps, which you'll be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well. You will have to choose the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all your domains and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as basic as choosing the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can easily forward any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It takes mere seconds for the new record to be working and only around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you'll be done in no time. The other company can also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.