Every single device that's connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, which was introduced originally, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of 8 sets 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 supports a significantly larger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your cloud website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it will permit you to set up or change every record effortlessly. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be 100% live within no more than an hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform supports AAAA records, you're going to be able to create one with ease for any domain or subdomain that you host within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record will propagate within the hour, so you can start using the services of any other company you direct the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia website hosting CP where you will also find all of the other records that were created automatically or you have created manually previously. The set up of the new AAAA record is as basic as picking the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You are going to be able to change the record at any time if needed. If the other provider needs a certain TTL value for the new record, you'll be able to change this setting also. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will keep operating after you change it or delete it and the time is in seconds.