Storing Images on another host

Pro's / Cons

[ukgimp]

Do any of you host images on other servers to save on bandwidth. I see it and wonder if it is a good idea. I have site that requires a high amount of large images and was giving the possibility some thought.

What do you think? Is it too dangerous in terms of performance.

Cheers

[Shannon Moore]

WW is doing it -- see thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[plumsauce]

It does not save you any bandwidth
in and of itself.

However, even if it is just another
site on the same box ....

1/ separating the images on to another
server encourages better management

2/ better management includes pushing
the images out onto caching proxies
as much as possible

3/ when you are ready to move to another
box, the url's already point to
a different host name, so just flip
the dns

A factor to consider is that because it
is a different server, that first connection
cannot be a reuse of a persistent connection
as defined in HTTP/1.1. But this is not
really a problem when multiple images are
normal.