An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain address where the Internet site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use such a redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with only a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, supplied with our shared web hosting solutions. When you sign in, you have to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is going to be live after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in only an hour and will propagate worldwide a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company involves only a couple of very simple steps, which you will be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You'll have to choose the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find your domain names and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as choosing the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a few mouse clicks, so you can easily forward any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It takes just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you will be done in no time. The other company may also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature shows how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.