Every single device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced initially, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens an internet site has 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 comprises of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a considerably bigger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you want to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or modify any record with ease. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within no more than 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.