An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that could be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its web hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain where the website for it is located. Depending on the system which the service provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one company and your emails with another, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a few clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with our cloud web hosting packages. Once you sign in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you can edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in only an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our innovative cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you're going to be able to create one with no trouble for every internet domain or subdomain which you host inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record will propagate within the hour, so that you can start using the services of any other company you direct the domain/subdomain to in no time. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting CP in which you will also find all other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually before. The creation of the new AAAA record is as basic as choosing the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You are going to be able to modify the record anytime if required. Assuming the other service provider requires a specific TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to modify this setting too. The Time To Live option specifies how long an existing record will keep functioning after you edit it or delete it and the time is in seconds.