: Should I use the domain registrar or the web hosting name servers? Let's say that I have the following website example.com, the domain registrar is provided by one company and the website hosting

@LarsenBagley505

I use cloudflare for my DNS management. It gives me flexibility and much faster than hosting providers DNS managements sys.

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@Nimeshi995

Just because you can change the name servers doesn't mean you should.

It's a mistake by many that they believe changing the name servers to that of their hosting is better when really its a mixed debate and depends on the DNS server reliability. What you find with Domain Registrars these days is they use very reliable DNS servers along with built in DNS management while years ago you had to pay for this DNS management therefor changing the name servers was ideal.

If your domain registrar has its own why not give them a try or least take a look at there SLA uptime policy.

Changing A Records is alot easier and faster when moving website from host to host, as changing name servers takes longer to update globally while records do not.

My 2 Cents, Hope it helps ;)

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@Ogunnowo487

If your hosting account is configured to use the domain example.com (presumably specified when you setup the hosting account), then you just need to change the NAMESERVERs at your domain registrar to point to your hosting provider (ie. change ns.exampleA.com to ns.exampleB.com).

The DNS will then be handled by your hosting provider, which should already have been configured for you when the hosting account was created (including mailserver etc.).

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