Each device that's connected to the Internet has a specific identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced originally, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits 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 is designed for a substantially bigger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia website hosting CP, bundled with our cloud hosting, will permit you to set up a new AAAA record with ease. When you're in the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will find all records you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which only input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain names, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to use than compared with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record shall be active and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other company. There's also an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be active if you change it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value which the other provider may require.