Originally Posted by V_RocKs

Right now MaxCDN ( http://www.maxcdn.com/ ) is running a promotion for new customers to put your site(s) on a CDN for only $1. This gets you 1TB of bandwidth. What is a CDN? It is a content delivery network designed to serve your surfers different parts of your web site from locally based peers.

On a typical blog the surfer receives the index page, CSS files, Javascript files, pictures and any other content from your server. If they live in Europe and your server is in Seattle this can be both time consuming and taxing on your server. With a CDN the index page still comes from your server (although that can be delivered by the CDN too), but the rest of the files come from the CDN. Now one request to your server really is only a single request and not 10 to 12 or more.

Your server load will be drastically reduced. Your complete page load times will be reduced. Your BW bill from your host will be reduced.

For $1 you can't beat the price for trying out a CDN and seeing if it offers you any benefits. Small to medium sized networks will find that 1TB is plenty for an entire year.

You can also serve your videos from the CDN and severely reduce the load to your own server(s).