Every device that's connected to the web has a specific identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced originally, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that 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 made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a substantially bigger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
The state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP, included with our shared hosting, will enable you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you are within the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that 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 pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA and then only input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domains, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much simpler to work with compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. In addition, there’s an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be active if you edit it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other provider may require.