Every device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens an internet site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 supports a considerably greater amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it will not take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it'll enable you to create or modify any record effortlessly. After you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will 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's as basic as that. The new record is going to be fully functioning within no more than an hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company features a few very easy steps, that you will be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You'll have to pick the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domain addresses and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as basic as choosing the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than several 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 supply. It will take just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, 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's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.