An AAAA record is an IP within the newly presented IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include four groups 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 amount of IPs that could be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its web hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain address where the site for it is. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one company and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use such a redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted within your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or edit every single record without difficulty. Once you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as simple as that. The new record will be fully functioning within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you've got a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to set up an AAAA record for a domain address you have hosted in it or a subdomain you have created, it will take you only a few clicks in the Hepsia CP to achieve that. Even when you have never had a web hosting account before, you will not encounter any issues because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All the DNS records for your domains will be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so as soon as you go there, you will see all records which have been created automatically or manually and you will be able to set up a new one by clicking on the corresponding button. A compact pop-up will appear, so with a couple of mouse clicks you can pick the type of record that you need and for which Internet domain or subdomain it'll be set up. Next, simply paste the IPv6 address in a text box, save the modification and 1 hour later the new AAAA record will be fully active. As an optional setting, you can pick the time this record shall be working after you change it or remove it in the future. This is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the default 3600 seconds if the other provider requires it.