An AAAA record is an IP within the recently launched IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers 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 number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain address where the site for it is located. Depending on the system the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this type of 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 Cloud Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to forward 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 Control Panel, which comes with all of our cloud hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an extra option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in just an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new web server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain within 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'll be able to create it within a few very simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to do this is to pick the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record is going to propagate world-wide and your domain address will start pointing to the third-party web server. If they require it, you can even modify the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be operating with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.