Tip: Images on shared hosting account

I recently moved all images except uploads to a shared hosting provider (Dreamhost), and edited the style vars in vB so that images are pulled directly from them. This has significantly improved my board's performance.

Obviously this is much cheaper than an own dedicated image server, and still should work for most smaller/medium big boards, since Dreamhost is providing tons of traffic and storage. Nice for boards with limited budget.

Dreamhost is also providing shell access including rsync access, so they can also easily be used for your backups, although they probably won't be too exited about that kind of usage...

This of course also works most others shared hosting providers, but I think Dreamhost is especially nice for this.

And no, I'm not getting paid by them...