Each device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, which was introduced originally, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. With 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 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a substantially bigger number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a few clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all of our shared hosting packages. Once you sign in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you will find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record is going to be active after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in just an hour and will propagate globally a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have created under it, you will be able to create it in just a few rather simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names where you can find all existing records or create new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to do that is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record is going to propagate worldwide and your domain will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they demand it, you can even modify the TTL value, which reveals the time this record is going to be functioning with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.