[TYPO3-dev] Serving static content from a different domain

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] ernst at cron-it.de
Tue Apr 5 14:40:22 CEST 2011


Dmitry Dulepov schrieb am 05.04.2011 13:46:
> Hi!
> 
> Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer wrote:
>> * Does it _really_ make sense to use a completely
>> different domain to serve static content, or would
>> also a subdomain like static-1.client-a.com do the job?
>> (The "only" advantage of a separate domain is a "better"
>> chance of having a cookieless domain?!)
> 
> It is not just domain, it should be also on a different IP address.
> 
> Different domain allows you to send less traffic and make network
> transfers faster.
> 
> Different IP address removes browser limit: browsers limit number of
> connections to the same IP address.

This is not true. A different hostname is enough to trigger browser to
download them in parallel.

See [1]. It's being talked only about "hosts" or "servers", but in
practice it's about different "hostnames" (doesn't matter if the IP is
the same).

Cheers,
Ernesto

[1]
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#ParallelizeDownloads




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