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 given hosting provider for your domain name is the easiest 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), etc, if you wish to modify some of these records, you're going to be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain point out the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the Internet domain you are trying to access. This way the web site that you will see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a host company will use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Website Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our website hosting products, will permit you to control the name servers of each and every domain registered through our company with just a couple of clicks, so even though you may have not had a hosting plan or a domain name before, you simply won't encounter any troubles. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it will enable you to edit the NS records of any domain or even a number of domains all at once. In addition we offer you the chance to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every single domain address registered in the account just as easily and all you need for that is a pair of IPs - either ours, if you're 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 will use the new records to point the domain name to their system. Different from other companies, we don't charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.