Every single device which is connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, is already distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site has 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 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 larger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, provided with all our shared hosting plans. Once you sign in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing 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, in a text box. As an additional option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is live after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in only an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name in 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're going to be able to create it in just a few rather simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all existing 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 change, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record will propagate world-wide and your domain address will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you can even change the TTL value, which outlines the time this record will be functioning with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.