An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly launched IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system the service provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you decide to use this sort 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 Shared Website Hosting
If you use a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, provided with all of our shared website hosting plans. After you sign in, you have to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down 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 edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is live after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate globally a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've set up under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few very simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to select the domain/subdomain that you'd like to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record is going to propagate worldwide and your domain will start directing to the third-party web server. If they need it, you may also edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be active with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.