Every single device which is connected to the world wide web has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced originally, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a website comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 substantially greater amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Web Hosting
If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted in your web hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or edit every single record with ease. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be fully active within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you've got a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need to set up an AAAA record for a domain you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've created, it is going to take you only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel to accomplish this. In case you have never had a web hosting account before, you won't encounter any issues because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All DNS records for your domains are going to be listed in a section of the CP with the same name, so once you go there, you will see all records that have been created automatically or manually and you're going to be able to create a new one by clicking on the corresponding button. A little pop-up shall appear, so with a couple of clicks you can select the type of record that you need and for which domain or subdomain it's going to be created. Then, just paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and 1 hour later the new AAAA record will be fully live. As an optional setting, you may choose the length of time this record shall be active after you change it or erase it in the future. This is actually the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the standard 3600 seconds in case the other company requires it.