Every device which is connected to the web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced initially, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain 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 made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 supports a considerably larger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you wish to use a domain name or a subdomain which you have inside a cloud website hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you need to create an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than only a few clicks to do that through our amazing, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. As soon as you go to the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the area in which you can set up any DNS record, so you simply have to pick the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down options menu and type in the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. If you happen to have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any difficulties as Hepsia is quite user-friendly and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. If they require it, you are also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, outlining how long it is going to remain active in the global DNS system after you change it or erase it.