Every single device that's connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised 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 significantly bigger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted inside your cloud hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it'll enable you to create or modify every single record easily. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up which will appear, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record will be fully working within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you'll also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one easily for any internet domain or subdomain which you host within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record will propagate within the hour, so that you could start using the services of any other company you point the domain/subdomain to in no time. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting CP where you will also find all the other records that were set up automatically or you have created manually in the past. The set up of the new AAAA record is as easy as picking the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type via simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address in a text box and saving the change. You will be able to edit the record at any time if needed. Assuming the other service provider needs a particular TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to modify this setting also. The Time To Live option specifies how long an existing record will keep functioning after you change it or remove it and the time is in seconds.