Every device that is connected to the web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort 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 supports a significantly bigger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted in your hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it'll permit you to set up or edit every single record easily. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record will be 100% live within only one hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. 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 active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company involves only a few simple steps, that you will be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well. You will have to pick the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find your domain addresses and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as choosing the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can effortlessly forward any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It's going to take just a few seconds for the new record to be functioning and only around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you'll be done in no time. The other company could also request you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.