Every single device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens an internet site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up 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. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a significantly larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party provider and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a few clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all our cloud hosting packages. Once you log in, you need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record is functioning after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in just an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.