Pointing Domain To Ftp Hosting Without Changing Nameservers

[rkysh]

I have a domain registered at godaddy [www.example.com]. And i have a free hosting at Heliohost

 

I want to point my domain to Heliohost's FTP server where my pages are hosted.

 

I googled this and I was instructed to change my nameservers of godaddy to Heliohost's nameserver, then add the FTP IP in the A-Record.

 

But I, without changing the nameservers, Added the A-Record to point to Heliohost's and added a custom domain at Heliohost's [www.example.com to point to public_html] and its working. I'm currently using my original nameserver.

 

Then why is it instructed to change nameservers everywhere. Is it mandatory ??

[anush]

If you change the name server, you don't need to worry about rest of things but changing with A records is not advisable to every as it can have problems if not properly configured