The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain is the simplest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will be taken care of on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etcetera, if you want to modify any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain name you are attempting to access. This way the web site that you'll see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a web hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you use a cloud website hosting from our us and you include a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you're going to be able to handle its NS records easily via the Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for many domains at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain address even if it is the first you have ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you'll be able to update its NS records as needed without any troubles even if you have not had a domain name of your own before. The process takes several mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, included with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have a number of domains within the account, you'll be able to update all of them at once, which could save you a great deal of time and mouse clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers that a domain address uses and if they are the proper ones or not as a way for the domain to be forwarded to the account that you've got on our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to create private name servers under any domain registered within the account and use them not just for that domain name, but also for every other one that you wish to direct to our cloud platform.