An AAAA record is an IP address within the newly released IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its web hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain address where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system that the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll enable you to create or change any record easily. Once you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that'll show up, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record will be 100% live within no more than one hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds which 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 sophisticated cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you're going to be able to create one without difficulty for any internet domain or subdomain that you host within 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 service provider you forward the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel in which you will also find all of the other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually previously. The set up of the new AAAA record is as basic as choosing the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the change. You're going to be able to change the record at any time if necessary. In case the other service provider requires a particular TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to change this setting also. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will continue functioning after you change it or remove it and the time is in seconds.