An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly presented IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that may be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain address 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 Internet site with one company and your emails with another, so if you choose to use such a redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your cloud hosting account, it will not take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to set up or edit any record with ease. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record shall be fully live within only an hour and the hostname which you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have set up under it, you are going to be able to create it in a few rather simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to modify, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record will propagate globally and your domain will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they require it, you can also modify the TTL value, which reveals the time this record will be active with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any modifications in the future.