Every single device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a website comes with 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 is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of eight sets 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 is designed for a significantly larger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you'd like to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and is going to permit you to create or change any record with ease. Once you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domain names 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 which will appear, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record is going to be 100% active within a maximum of one hour and the hostname which you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our innovative cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you're going to be able to create one with no trouble for any domain or subdomain you host within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you could start using the services of any other company you forward the domain/subdomain to in no time. You are able to create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will also find all of the other records that were set up automatically or you have created manually in the past. The set up of the new AAAA record is as simple as picking out the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address within a text box and saving the modification. You'll be able to change the record anytime if necessary. In case the other service provider requires a particular TTL value for the new record, you will be able to change this setting as well. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will keep functioning after you modify it or delete it and the time is in seconds.