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buck54321
buck54321

Reputation: 847

What is the best way to handle a lot of images from a shared hosting plan?

I have a shared hosting plan and am designing a single page site which will include a slideshow. The browser typically limits the number of simultaneous requests to a single domain. I don't expect a lot of traffic, but I would like the traffic I do receive to have fast load times. I may be able to add unlimited subdomains, but does that really affect the speed for the customer considering they are probably the only one polling my server and all subdomains point to the same processor? I have already created two versions of every image, one for the slideshow, and one for larger format via AJAX request, but the lag times are still a little long for my taste. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 386

Answers (1)

Andre D
Andre D

Reputation: 4703

Before you contrive a bunch of subdomains to maximize parallel connections, you should profile your page load behavior so you know where most of the time is being spent. There might be easier and more rewarding optimizations to make first.

There are several tools that can help with this, use all of them:

Some important factors to look at are cache optimization and image compression.

If you've done all those things, and you are sure that you want to use multiple (sub)domains, then I would recommend using a content delivery network (CDN) instead of hosting the static files (images) on the same shared server. You might consider Amazon's CloudFront service. It's super easy to set up, and reasonably priced.

Lastly, don't get carried away with too many (sub)domains, because each host name will require a separate DNS lookup; find a balance.

Upvotes: 3

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