Every device which is connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a considerably greater number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our shared website hosting, will allow you to create a new AAAA record with ease. Once you are inside the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA then just input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain addresses, but it's less likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with than compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record shall be live and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other provider. There's also an option to change the TTL value, which outlines how long this record will be functioning if you modify it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other service provider may require.