Every device that is connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, which was introduced initially, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a considerably larger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia CP, which comes with all of our shared web hosting plans. When you sign in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, which 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 could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is active after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in just an hour and will propagate globally a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our sophisticated cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one with no trouble for any internet domain or subdomain you host in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record will propagate within the hour, so that you can start using the services of any other service provider you forward the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting CP in which you will also find all the other records that were set up automatically or you have set up manually in the past. The creation of the new AAAA record is as simple as choosing the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type through simple drop-down menus, inputting the IPv6 address in a text box and saving the change. You are going to be able to modify the record at any time if required. Assuming the other provider requires a specific TTL value for the new record, you will be able to edit this setting too. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will keep working after you edit it or erase it and the time is in seconds.