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Having probs with a slow server. Thinking about putting my larger images on amazon s3. Does this work ok?

How can I get my theme to access images from a amazon. Going into the controller it seems to only allow links to images stores locally?

For images that are hard coded into the theme then that should be ok? but what if not?

TIA

stephenlaw
 
jvansanten replied on at Permalink Reply
I'd suggest setting up an account at Amazon and test the S3 download speed to see if it's satisfactory.

I did that last year (and of course, things could have changed since then) and found that the response time was 3 times slower than delivering on my own equipment with a bonded T1.

It's all relative and there are a lot of ways to improve performance delivering images:
ensuring images are the smallest size with good quality,
different hosting options at your host,
a different host.