Every device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a significantly larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted in your shared website hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and it will permit you to set up or edit any record effortlessly. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find 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 options menu inside the pop-up that'll appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be 100% working within no more than one hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company includes a few really easy steps, which you will be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You'll need to select the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all your domains and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as basic as selecting the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can quickly direct any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they offer. It will take seconds for the new record to be working and just about an hour for it to propagate globally, so you will be done in no time. The other provider could also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature outlines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.