An AAAA record is an IP in the freshly launched IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs that can be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain name where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one provider and your emails with another, so if you choose to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain 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 want to create a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud 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 extremely intuitive to use and it will allow you to set up or edit any record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that'll appear, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record will be fully live within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname which you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply erase 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 name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to select the domain/subdomain you need 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 new record is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party hosting server. If they demand it, you could also modify the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be functioning with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.