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Originally Posted by motowebmaster

I would be interested in the outcome of this strategy.

The basic outcome has already been published:

Amazon CloudFront / S3 Small Object Test Result

I can confirm that moving the /clientscript also results in better server performance, especially if you have a lot of .js code (from mods, plugins, etc.).

Globally, pulling static objects like images and Javascript results in faster response time for end users (unless they are next to the server, of course, see results above), decreased Apache workers, decreased bandwidth (out from the main server, increased at CF/S3 of course) and a decrease in load average (load results depend on a number of factors and is not easily qualified).

Please note that vB/Jelsoft uses the same strategy (for a long time) in the Server Settings and Optimization Options:

Use Remote YUI
YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) script files are hosted locally on your server, you may however have them served from Yahoo's own servers, saving you some bandwidth and potentially decreasing load times.

So, you can see that Jelsoft/vB already use this strategy for the YUI scripts to increase performance, etc. Using a global CDN (like Amazon S3/CF, Limelight, etc). for static content (images, clientside scripts, etc) is the same strategy (but on a larger scale).

:-) Maybe we can convince Jelsoft to serve their scripts in S3/CF and permit all vB customers to pull from the global CDN as part of the license :-)