Every device that is connected to the world wide web has a special identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, that was introduced initially, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers 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 can handle a significantly greater number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a couple of clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all of our web hosting plans. As soon as you log in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all of the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one without difficulty for every domain name or subdomain which you host in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record will propagate within the hour, so that you could start using the services of any other provider you forward the domain/subdomain to in no time. You are able to create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel in which you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually previously. The set up of the new AAAA record is as simple as selecting the needed domain name or subdomain and the AAAA type through simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address in a text box and saving the change. You will be able to modify the record at any time if required. If the other company needs a specific TTL value for the new record, you will be able to modify this setting also. The Time To Live option defines how long an existing record will continue functioning after you edit it or erase it and the time is in seconds.