Email and Website at Different Servers?

Hi,

I've a domain registered at 123-reg and currently point the nameserver to the website hosting server. This sends all email and webtraffic to the right place. Now, I want to keep the email on the current server and move only the website to a different server. How do I acheive this? Can anyone help please. Fingers crossed and many thanks

You either need to do:

- Change the MX on the new nameservers to point where you want the mail to go
or
- Point the www and . records (via A record) to your new hoster, the mail would remain where it is.

Matt

In reply to a post by smiffy12:

Hi,

I've a domain registered at 123-reg and currently point the nameserver to the website hosting server. This sends all email and webtraffic to the right place. Now, I want to keep the email on the current server and move only the website to a different server. How do I acheive this? Can anyone help please. Fingers crossed and many thanks

As uno said change the mx entry. You can either do this at the registar's control panel or at your webserver's one (cpanel for instance offers you to change the mail settings).

Sorry for delay, just back after a couple of days. Many thanks or the help, I now know what I need to do - I think

Thanks to you both.

Don't forget to change the TTL values to something low (say, 10 minutes) days before you start to change things.

Then if you make a mistake, it will only take 10 minutes to put it all right again. (and your changes will all take effect within 10 minutes).

You can put the TTL back to a normal value when everything is complete.

Are you aware of DNSreport.com?

In reply to a post by Sandgrounder:

Don't forget to change the TTL values to something low (say, 10 minutes) days before you start to change things.

Then if you make a mistake, it will only take 10 minutes to put it all right again. (and your changes will all take effect within 10 minutes).

You can put the TTL back to a normal value when everything is complete.

Are you aware of DNSreport.com?

Would actually suggest doing that a couple of days earlier ..

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showprofile.php?Use...

Sandgrounder did suggest that, just easy to miss.

If you re-read it as "Dont forget to chage the TTL values to something low (say, 10 minutes) a few days before you start"

In reply to a post by ian72:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showprofile.php?Use...

Sandgrounder did suggest that, just easy to miss.

If you re-read it as "Dont forget to chage the TTL values to something low (say, 10 minutes) a few days before you start"

Yep suffered forum blindness ...

Mea Culpa.

In reply to a post by Sandgrounder:

Mea Culpa.

but ideally you should set both your domain registrar dns ttl to the same value as well ..