The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain name is the simplest way to direct 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), etc, if you want to change some of these records, you are going to be able to do it by using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name reveal the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to access. In this way the web site you will see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider will use depends exclusively on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
The outstanding Hepsia Control Panel, offered with with our shared hosting packages, allows you to manage the name servers of each domain registered through us with just a few clicks, so even though you may have not had a hosting plan or a domain name before, you won't encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and will allow you to modify the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain addresses together. We also give you the chance to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each and every domain registered in the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you are going to use the child NS to point the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you will use the new records to point the domain to their system. Different from other providers, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you are going to be able to update its NS records as required without any troubles even if you have never had a domain address of your own before. The process takes several mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have many domains inside the account, you will be able to update all of them simultaneously, which could save you a great deal of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the proper ones or not in order for the domain to be forwarded to the account that you have got on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will also enable you to create private name servers under any domain registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for every other one that you wish to point to our cloud platform.