Every single device which is connected to the Internet has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens an internet site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 significantly larger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your cloud web hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and is going to allow you to set up or modify any record easily. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll only have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will show up, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record is going to be 100% live within a maximum of an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.