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What are the benefits of hosting your images on a subdomain such as "img.domain.com"? If you're not on a CDN is there any real benefit to this?
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So doing this with CSS and JS files would also serve the same purpose?
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These are just a few common examples, but you can use a subdomain for virtually any structure you want to introduce to your website. You could theoretically host every page on your website on a different subdomain, like contact.example.com for your contact page, about.example.com for your about page, etc.
Because subdomains are regarded as separate websites by Google, they also need to be hosted on separate hosting plans. This means that you will need to pay a separate hosting fee for each subdomain.
It can trick browsers to download with more 'pipes' of bandwidth. Say, the maximum of same downloads on a domain was three, hosting the images on another subdomain would effectively increase that to six.
The browser also doesn't have to send and receive cookies in the header, so it will go faster in that regard also.
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You can direct the subdomain to a different server, that is running a lighter weight web daemon such as nginx or lighthttpd. Then, you are not burdening the main, number crunching server with all the extra requests for static images.
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