Every single device which is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site comes with an IP record, that 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 four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind 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 supports a substantially greater amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your website hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and it'll allow you to create or change every record effortlessly. When you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domains and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that will appear, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record is going to be fully working within only an hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a couple of very simple steps, that you will be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You'll have to choose the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of your domain names and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as simple as selecting the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can very easily direct any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It's going to take just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other company could also request you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines 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.