Hosting glossary
A record
In short: The DNS record that points your domain at your web server's IP address.
An A record points a name to an IPv4 address; an AAAA record points it to an IPv6 address. Moving host usually means changing these to the new server's address.
Also called
- Address record
- AAAA record
See also: How switching works
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