Each device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, which was introduced initially, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens an internet site has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format is designed for a significantly greater amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you have to set up an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks within the Hepsia CP, which comes with all of our cloud hosting plans. After you sign in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you can edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record will be functioning after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in only an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is extremely easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have set up under it, you will be able to create it in a few rather simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all current records or create new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to pick the domain/subdomain that you would like to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record is going to propagate worldwide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they need it, you may also change the TTL value, which reveals the time this record shall be active with its current value before a new one kicks in if you make any changes in the future.