The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain name is the most effective way to point 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), and so on, if you need to edit any of these records, you're going to be able to do it by 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 attempting to access. This way the site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least two NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a host company will use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

The innovative Hepsia CP, included with with our cloud hosting plans, will enable you to manage the name servers of any domain registered through our company with simply a few clicks, so even when you haven't had a hosting plan or a domain before, you won't encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, features a very user-friendly interface and it'll allow you to change the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain addresses all at once. We also give you the chance to set up 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 pair of IPs - either ours, if you are going to use the child NS to direct the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to point the domain name to their system. Unlike other companies, we don't charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each and every domain name that's registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to verify if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to control any domain effortlessly even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host in the very same account. This option is very handy if you have customers of your own and you would like their websites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available free of charge.