Hi,
I saw a lot of big websites that have the images stored on another server, or at least it seems that way to me.
Take for example imdb.com. If I view one of their image in a separate window, the image seems to be stored at ia.media-imdb.com
Can you explain why this is happening and what are the benefits of it?
Thank you in advance.
Chances are that that domain is a CDN, so optimized for delivering static data (like images). Benefit is a better caching and faster retrieval for all images, thus improving usability.
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