An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly released IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the amount of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system that the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this sort of redirection to point a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Website Hosting
If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll allow you to create or modify every single record effortlessly. When you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record will be 100% active within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
As our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you'll be able to create one with ease for every domain name or subdomain which you host inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you could start using the services of any other company you forward the domain/subdomain to right away. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting CP in which you will also find all the other records that were set up automatically or you have set up manually in the past. The creation of the new AAAA record is as easy as picking the needed domain name or subdomain and the AAAA type through simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address within a text box and saving the change. You're going to be able to modify the record at any time if required. If the other service provider demands a certain TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to modify this setting too. The Time To Live option defines how long an existing record will keep functioning after you edit it or remove it and the time is in seconds.