Every device which is connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced at first, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site has 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 is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits 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 bigger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all of our cloud website hosting plans. Once you log in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record is going to be functioning after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you are going to be able to create one with ease for every domain address or subdomain which you host within 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 service provider you point the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have created manually before. The creation of the new AAAA record is as easy as picking the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You will be able to modify the record at any time if needed. If the other provider needs a certain TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to change this setting too. 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.