Every single device which is connected to the world wide web has a special identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens an internet site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits 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 significantly greater number of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our shared website hosting packages. After you sign in, you have to navigate to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is going to be functioning after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in only an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have created under it, you are going to be able to create it in a few very simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all current records or set up new ones with several clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to select the domain/subdomain you want to change, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record is going to propagate world-wide and your domain name will start forwarding to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you can also edit the TTL value, which reveals the time this record is going to be functioning with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.