AAAA is a domain record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where every single IP address is comprised of four groups of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address features 8 sets of four hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the tremendously smaller amount of unique IPs which the existing system supports and the speedy increase of units which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to forward a domain to a machine that uses this sort of an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the exact same function, yet different notations are used, so as to distinguish the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud website hosting account, it will not take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or modify every record effortlessly. Once you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that'll show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record will be 100% working within a maximum of an hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds which the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a few really easy steps, which you'll be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia hosting CP as well. You will have to choose the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domains and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as basic as picking out the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can effortlessly point any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take just a few seconds for the new record to be live and just about an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you'll be done in no time. The other provider may also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.