Each device that is connected to the Internet has a special identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced originally, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format is designed for a significantly greater amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you need to set up an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks within the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of our shared website hosting plans. Once you log in, you will need to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an extra option you can edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record will be live after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in just an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.