Every device which is connected to the web has a unique identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced originally, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits 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 supports a substantially larger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it'll permit you to set up or edit every record easily. When you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be fully active within a maximum of an hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have created under it, you will be able to create it in just a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses where you can find all current records or set up new ones with several clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to pick the domain/subdomain that you would like to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record is going to propagate world-wide and your domain address will start pointing to the third-party web server. If they require it, you can even modify the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be functioning with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.