Every device which is connected to the web has a unique identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort 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 works with a substantially bigger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or change any record easily. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that'll show up, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within no more than 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.