Each device that's connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IPs, that was introduced initially, has already been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 is designed for a substantially larger number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with our shared hosting, will permit you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for any hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA after which only type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it is unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of than other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other provider. Additionally, there is an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you are going to be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a couple of clicks. All it takes to do that is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate globally and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you can even modify the TTL value, which indicates the time this record will be working with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any changes in the future.