Every single device which is connected to the web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced originally, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format is designed for a substantially bigger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you use a service with a third-party provider and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with only a few clicks in the Hepsia CP, included with all our cloud hosting solutions. As soon as you sign in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an added option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is functioning after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in only an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.