Each device that's connected to the web has a unique identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced initially, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers 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 can handle a significantly greater number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted in your cloud hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or change every single record easily. When you log in and go to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up which will show up, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as basic as that. The new record is going to be fully working within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall 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 indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
As our advanced cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one with no trouble for any domain name or subdomain which you host in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using the services of any other provider you forward the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel where you will also find all of the other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually in the past. The set up of the new AAAA record is as basic as picking the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type via simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the change. You'll be able to edit the record at any time if needed. If the other provider requires a particular TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to change this setting too. The Time To Live option specifies how long an existing record will continue working after you edit it or erase it and the time is in seconds.