What do you think about CDNs for forum images?

[Shawn Gossman]

Content Delivery Networks or CDNs can host your images so that your forum is less resource-intensive.

In many cases, your images are your biggest resource hogs.

Do you use a CDN at all? If so, what do you use?

If not, why not?

 

[Tracy]

Not currently because I still have about 480GB of storage that is targeted towards images.
Once I get down to about 75GB of spare storage, I'll either look at upgrading to a larger server or moving over to a CDN then (probably CloudFlare's paid offering).

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Not currently because I still have about 480GB of storage that is targeted towards images.
Once I get down to about 75GB of spare storage, I'll either look at upgrading to a larger server or moving over to a CDN then (probably CloudFlare's paid offering).

I had a CDN for my biggest blog. It gets like 50K visits a month. I noticed a little speed increase but, in all honesty, I quit paying for it and when it all returned to normal, my site didn't really slow down all that much.