An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly presented IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 groups of digits between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that could be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain address where the website for it is. Depending on the system that the service provider employs, 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 email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you are using 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'll be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all our cloud hosting packages. Once you log in, you have to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, which 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 could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is going to be live after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you ought to set up an AAAA record for a domain you have hosted in it or a subdomain you have set up, it will take you just a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP to do that. Even when you have never had a website hosting account before, you won't experience any troubles because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All the DNS records for your domain names are going to be listed in a section of the CP with the same name, so when you go there, you will notice all records which have been set up automatically or manually and you'll be able to set up a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A little pop-up will appear, so with only a couple of mouse clicks you can select the type of record you need and for which domain name or subdomain it will be created. After that, simply paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and an hour later the new AAAA record is going to be fully live. As an optional setting, you can pick the length of time this record shall be active after you edit it or delete it in the future. This is actually the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the default 3600 seconds if the other provider demands it.