AAAA Records

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An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the recently introduced IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this type 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 Cloud Web Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your cloud web hosting account, it won't take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and is going to enable you to set up or change every single record without difficulty. After you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that will appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record will be 100% working within only 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds which the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.