I have just asked my ISP if I can move the company web site to another location - but leave the email where it is. We link to them via ADSL which we wish to leave in place. They tell us that "for technical reasons" if the .com site goes, the email has to go as well. We have also been told that there are no links between the two and no reason why one can't be hosted by one company and one by another. Does anyone know the truth behind this, along with the reasoning?

has to do with two companies administering the same domain name most likley. technicaly not impossible but, I can see their concern...

Your correct in the fact that in shouldn't make any difference performance wise, but having them separated can create an administrative headache. It would be a bad idea to split them up.

I can't see ANY reason why web server and Email server cannot be separated to different ISPs ! It's all well defined in the entries of the name server. One (and only one) ISP has to maintain the DNS, and where the records for www and mail (MX) point to doesn't matter at all. Our company has 1 registered domain. There are 4 departments in 4 different cities. So we use 4 subdomains via the nameserver. All departments use different providers to access the net. All 4 departments have their own mail server, that means they have some registered IPs, some have half a class-c net some less. The web server is hosted by a 5. ISP. No technical headaches at all, LOL ! Mike blumini AT web.de

Mike is absolutelt right. Someone's too lazy to change the MX entry (or are trying to keep your business with a lie.)

Thankyou all for these responses - and it seems that someone is trying to bullsh*t us! We'll see what happens. Cheers Roc

If you asked to representative or junior technician he may not understand how to do it!!!! This kind of request must be sent to the network administrator or dns manager. It take 2min to modify a DNS zone.