Every device which is connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, which was introduced originally, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a substantially larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with our shared hosting, allows you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you are inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA after which just type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it's unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of than compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain name will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. There's also an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be active if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to create an AAAA record for a domain name you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've set up, it is going to take you just a few mouse clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel to achieve that. In case you have never had a hosting account before, you won't encounter any troubles because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All DNS records for your domain names will be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the exact same name, so as soon as you go there, you will notice all records which have been created automatically or manually and you will be able to set up a new one by simply clicking the corresponding button. A little pop-up will appear, so with just a couple of mouse clicks you can select the type of record you require and for which domain name or subdomain it will be created. Then, simply paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the change and one hour later the new AAAA record will be fully live. As an optional setting, you can select how long this record is going to be working after you edit it or remove it in the future. This is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the standard 3600 seconds when the other company requires it.