Each device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced originally, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that 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 comprises of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind 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 works with a considerably greater amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll allow you to set up or modify any record without difficulty. Once you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will only have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be fully working within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds which the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a couple of very easy steps, which you'll be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel as well. You will need to pick the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domains and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as easy as picking out the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than several clicks, so you can easily point any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take seconds for the new record to be live and just around an hour for it to propagate worldwide, so you'll be done in no time. The other provider can 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 you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.