An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the recently introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its website hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this unique record tells the domain address where the Internet site for it can be found. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your web hosting account, it won't take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or change every single record easily. When you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that'll appear, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as basic as that. The new record is going to be fully live within a maximum of one hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify 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 are going to be able to create one without difficulty for any domain address 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, to enable you to start using the services of any other company you point the domain/subdomain to in no time. You could 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 before. The creation of the new AAAA record is as basic as picking out the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address within a text box and saving the change. You will be able to change the record anytime if needed. Assuming the other provider needs a certain TTL value for the new record, you will be able to change this setting as well. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will keep working after you change it or remove it and the time is in seconds.