Every single device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website 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 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind 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 larger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with only a couple of clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with our cloud hosting plans. Once you log in, you need to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record is functioning after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in only an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new hosting server.