An AAAA record is an IP in the recently released IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 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. Each and every domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain name where the website for it is located. Depending on the system the company 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 e-mails with another, so if you decide 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 Website Hosting
If you'd like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and is going to allow you to create or modify every record with ease. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record shall be 100% live within no more than one hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be live after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need to create an AAAA record for a domain name you have hosted in it or a subdomain you have set up, it is going to take you just a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP to accomplish this. Even if you have never had a web hosting account before, you will not face any problems because you will use a very simple and easy-to-use interface. All DNS records for your domains will be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so when you go there, you'll see all records that have been set up automatically or manually and you're going to be able to set up a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A small pop-up will appear, so with only a few clicks you can select the type of record you require and for which domain name or subdomain it'll be set up. After that, just paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the change and one hour later the new AAAA record will be fully functioning. As an optional setting, you can choose the time this record will be active after you modify it or delete it in the future. That is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the default 3600 seconds if the other company requires it.