The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain is the most effective way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be handled on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), and so on, so, in case you wish to edit any one of these records, you'll be able to do it via their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address reveal the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to reach. In this way the web site 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 is absolutely no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a web hosting provider will use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud web hosting from our company and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to manage its NS records easily using the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a number of domains at a time with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to handle your domain address even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It requires merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few 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 IP addresses of any company that you'd like the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you register a new domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any problems even if you have not had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a couple of mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, included with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have many domain addresses within the account, you'll be able to update all of them at once, which will save you a lot of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they are the right ones or not in order for the domain address to be directed to the account that you've got on our sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to set up private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain, but also for every other one that you would like to point to our cloud platform.