Every device that's connected to the web has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website 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 made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 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 is designed for a significantly larger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your web hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and it will allow you to set up or edit every record effortlessly. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within no more than 1 hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you are going to be able to create one without difficulty for every internet domain or subdomain you host inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using the services of any other provider you direct the domain/subdomain to right away. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting CP in which you will also find all 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 basic as selecting the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address within a text box and saving the change. You will be able to modify the record anytime if needed. In case the other provider needs a specific TTL value for the new record, you will be able to edit this setting as well. The Time To Live option outlines how long an existing record will keep working after you edit it or remove it and the time is in seconds.