Every single device which is connected to the web has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced initially, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of eight sets 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 is designed for a considerably greater number 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 set up an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with a couple of clicks within the Hepsia CP, included with all our cloud hosting solutions. As soon as you log in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be operating in no more than an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.