The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain address 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), etcetera, so, in case you would like to edit some of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the domain name you are trying to access. In this way the web site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud hosting plan from our us and you include a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to handle its NS records easily via the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain names simultaneously 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 simple to control your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires simply a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as required without any difficulties even if you haven't had a domain of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, provided with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many different domain names in the account, you'll be able to update all of them at the same time, which will save you lots of time and mouse clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers that a domain name uses and if they are the right ones or not in order for the domain name to be directed to the account which you have on our advanced cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to create private name servers under any domain registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain, but also for every other one that you intend to point to our cloud platform.