An AAAA record is an IP address within the recently released IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain name where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this sort of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted in your cloud web hosting account, it won't take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and is going to permit you to create or edit every record easily. After you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it's as easy as that. The new record shall be 100% live within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds which the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one without difficulty for every internet domain or subdomain you host in 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 could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually in the past. The creation of the new AAAA record is as simple as choosing the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You are going to be able to modify the record at any time if necessary. If the other service provider requires a certain TTL value for the new record, you will be able to modify this setting also. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will keep working after you edit it or delete it and the time is in seconds.