An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain address where the site for it is located. Depending on the system that the service provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your email messages with another, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you want to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted in your cloud website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and is going to permit you to create or change every single record easily. After you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will show up, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% functioning within a maximum of an hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have set up under it, you'll be able to create it in a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to choose the domain/subdomain you need to edit, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate worldwide and your domain will start directing to the third-party hosting server. If they require it, you could also edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be functioning with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.