Each device that's connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises 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 bigger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you have to create an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all our cloud hosting packages. After you log in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an added option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be active after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you're going to be able to create it within a few very simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all current records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to select the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate worldwide and your domain name will start directing to the third-party web server. If they need it, you could also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be active with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.