Every single device that's connected to the web has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IPs, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 can handle a significantly larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The highly developed Hepsia website hosting CP, bundled with our cloud website hosting, will allow you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you are inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will find all records that you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which only input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domains, but it is extremely unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to work with than compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be working and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. Additionally, there is an option to modify the TTL value, which outlines how long this record is going to be active if you modify it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.