Suggestions to host website images elsewhere and embed them

Sorry for a potentially dumb question, but is anyone hosting their website images on a subdomain or a third party place and embedding them on the main site to improve site performance?

cassj said:

Sorry for a potentially dumb question, but is anyone hosting their website images on a subdomain or a third party place and embedding them on the main site to improve site performance?

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My bad, how about a free CDN?

Yes, there are some wordpress cdn you can use like Bunny and Cloudinary.

cassj said:

Sorry for a potentially dumb question, but is anyone hosting their website images on a subdomain or a third party place and embedding them on the main site to improve site performance?

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yes that's what I have always done. I don't store images or anything hypermedia in my wordpress media library. I host a static file server on a subdomain (static.mydomain.com and host all the images/files from there. Anything I need I just embed from the subdomain.

This workflow solves quite a few problems:
- your WordPress installs stay lean and you don't have to care about storage problems because of your media library growing too large on your WordPress host.
- in the future you can easily move to a paid CDN service, all you have to do is sync your file server's contents.

Awesome suggestions! Thx all!

s3 + cloudfront is pretty cheap. If you're not already you might want to convert images to webp. Can use fallback to jpg/png if not supported, but most up to date browsers do.