Every device that is connected to the web has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, which was introduced initially, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a website comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with 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 works with a considerably greater number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you'd like to create a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted inside your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and is going to allow you to set up or change every record with ease. When you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be fully live within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds which the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company includes a few very easy steps, which you'll be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia hosting CP as well. You will have to choose the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of your domain names and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as selecting the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than several mouse clicks, so you can very easily forward any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they offer. It takes just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you'll be done in no time. The other company could also request you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that is 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.