Every device that's connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, that was introduced initially, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain 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 is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by 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 type 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 can handle a significantly bigger number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
The state-of-the-art Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided with our shared website hosting, allows you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. Once you are inside the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA after which simply input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain names, but it's not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record will be active and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. There's also an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record is going to be working if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value that the other company may require.