Yes, you can host your website and business email separately, and it’s a very normal setup for Orlando and Florida businesses that want better email reliability without locking their website to one vendor.
Here’s the simple idea: your domain’s DNS tells the internet where to send website visitors and where to deliver email. Your website uses A/AAAA records (or a CNAME), while your business email uses MX records. Because those records are separate, you can run your site on one host and your email on another without any conflict.
| Setup | Best fit | Upside | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Same provider for site + email | Very small teams that want one login and one bill | Simpler initial setup, one support channel | Email tools and spam filtering can be basic; switching hosts later can disrupt mail if DNS is changed carelessly |
| Separate providers (website host + dedicated email) | Most businesses that rely on email daily | Cleaner migrations, stronger mail features, better separation if the website has an outage | DNS has to be configured correctly, and you manage two vendors |
If you want to split them, the steps are straightforward: pick your website hosting, pick your email provider, then set DNS once and leave it stable. If you’d rather have our team handle the hosting side (and help coordinate DNS so nothing breaks), our WordPress hosting is built for small businesses that want hands-on support.
- Choose who will host your DNS (domain registrar, Cloud DNS, etc.) and keep it consistent.
- Point your website records (A/AAAA or CNAME) to the web host.
- Add your email provider’s MX records.
- Add email authentication records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) to help delivery and reduce spoofing.
- Test: send to Gmail and Outlook, reply back, then check spam and inbox placement.
The biggest “gotcha” we see is when a business changes nameservers during a hosting move and accidentally drops the email records, so it’s worth skimming email during a host switch before you start.
One more practical tip: keep ownership clean. Your domain, DNS, hosting, and email each have their own logins, and that’s fine, but you should know exactly who controls what (especially if you work with an IT vendor, office manager, or previous agency) because who owns what can save you from lockouts later.
If you tell us what you’re using now (for example, GoDaddy email or cPanel inboxes) and what you want to move to, we can outline the cleanest path that keeps mail flowing while the website changes happen.
