An AAAA record is an IP in the freshly launched IPv6 format and it is made up of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs that could be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system the company uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your site with one company and your emails with another, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Website Hosting
The highly developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with our website hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record easily. When you're in the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will find all records you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA and then just type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain names, but it's less likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to work with compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be working and your domain address will start resolving to the servers of the other company. There's also an option to modify the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be active if you update it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
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 is going to take you only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP to achieve that. Even though you may have never had a website hosting account before, you'll not experience any problems since you will use a very simple and user-friendly interface. All of the DNS records for your domain addresses will be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so as soon as you go there, you'll see all records which have been set up automatically or manually and you will be able to set up a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A compact pop-up shall appear, so with just a few clicks you can pick the type of record you need and for which domain name or subdomain it's going to be set up. Next, simply paste the IPv6 address within a text box, save the change and one hour later the new AAAA record will be 100% live. As an optional setting, you can select the time this record is going to be working after you change 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 standard 3600 seconds if the other company requires it.