Every device that is connected to the Internet has a specific identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain 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 consists of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight 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 works with a significantly larger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you want to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or edit every record with ease. After you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up which will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record will be fully functioning within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.