The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to point 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, if you want to edit any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it using their system. Put simply, 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 you are trying to reach. This way the website that you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least 2 NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting service from our company and you include a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to handle its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain addresses simultaneously with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes just a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each company that you want the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are managed via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will enable you to handle your domain addresses easily even if you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain address previously. Changing the NS records for each domain registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are correct or not as to forward that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and takes just a couple of clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS control services which we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their websites, employing this feature will give you more credibility as a business.