The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), etc, so if you need to change any one of these records, you'll be able to do it through their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain name you are trying to reach. In this way the web site you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a web hosting provider is going to use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud website hosting products, will allow you to handle the name servers of any domain registered through our company with only a couple of mouse clicks, so even though you may have not had a web hosting plan or a domain before, you'll not encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and will allow you to modify the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domains simultaneously. Additionally we give you the opportunity to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for any domain address registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you will use the child NS to point the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to redirect the domain to their system. Unlike other companies, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.