Hosting e-mail and website on different servers

Ben Newman · Nov 7, 2016

I have a company who wants to host their websites with a hosting company, but they would like to maintain their current e-mails in a different server. I haven't done this before, so I would appreciate any advice. Is it possible to host e-mail and website on different servers?

sh-admin · Nov 7, 2016

Yes , its possible. You can just host websites and email on 2 different servers. What control panel is being used for those websites at the moment ?

sh-admin · Nov 7, 2016

Well if you are familiar with Cpanel then follow the below documentation

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/58Docs/Configure+Remote+Service+IPs

LJSHost · Nov 7, 2016

Hi Ben,

This is just a simple matter of editing the DNS zone for the domain and change the MX record to point at the IP of the separate mail server.
Takes a couple of minutes to make the changes then you just have to wait for propagation to complete.

AtlanticServers · Nov 16, 2016

Yes , its possible.
it is a normal practice.
You need correct change DNS (MX) records and let's go

stackstar · Nov 22, 2016

Again its quite normal to use different systems to host mail, especially when there is a lot of email accounts at play. Many big enterprise email customers will require multiple mail servers / backup mail servers with anti spam/malware services. Usually its a good idea to not run that many services on the same server you are hosting the site just from a resource perspective alone.

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