The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain name is the simplest way to forward 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), and so on, so if you wish to modify some of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain show the DNS servers that 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 access. In this way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a host company is going to use depends entirely on their preference.
NS Records in Cloud Hosting
If you use a Linux cloud package from our company and you add a new domain name in the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to handle its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia web hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domains at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to manage your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It requires merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name 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'll even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every provider that you want the new NS records to point to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for every single domain address which is registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks using the leading-edge, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a particular domain address and to determine if they're the ones that are required for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to manage any domain easily even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host within the very same account. This option is very handy when you have clients of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is totally free.