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Pay as you go
The bandwidth you utilize is the only thing you pay for. Not using the service for a couple of months will not suspend your account and will not cost you a cent until you begin using it again.Low bandwidth costs
Cost of bandwidth is significantly lower than what you would pay to a hosting company for utilizing large amounts. The more content you offload, the less your website will cost you, plus numerous other benefits.Easy and seamless integration
All you need is a single HTML line to refer to a little piece of external javascript code into your page. Then you make use of the extremely handy tag attributes we provide.Fast, uninterruptible and reliable service
As a result of employing the latest network technology, state-of-the-art server hardware and intelligent data manipulation algorithms, we guarantee 99.9% service availability as well as a highly satisfying performance.Individual discounts
Once you are considered a long-term and loyal SteadyOffload subscriber, you will get individual discounts on the cost of bandwidth.Forget about costly CDN's to deliver static content
The constantly growing infrastructure behind SteadyOffload forms a CDN (Content Delivery Network) itself, thus delivering static content from approximate locations.Infinite scalability
The data-parallel infrastructure behind SteadyOffload is designed to handle extreme loads without sacrificing performance.Why Offload?
You will be amazed that static content constitutes more than 90% of today's internet traffic. The funky image buttons on your website, the image gallery from your last birthday party, the illustrated PDF documents about your product, the movie clips of the last conference, all that is static content. It rarely or never changes, but it exposes your server under a very high load due to the high number of requests being issued and due to its likely big size.As a practical example, consider a web page with 10 images in it - be it photos, drawings or graphical elements. Each time a visitor opens this page, his/her browser issues 11 separate simultaneous requests to your server. That leads to a couple of problems.
The performance of your server degrades significantly. Disk I/O is significantly worsened due to the frequent reads. Simultaneous requests cause the creation of a large number of concurrent threads. CPU power is equally distributed among these threads and what you end up with is mediocre performance. The CPU power of your server is an expensive resource and its use can be optimized by offloading the requests for static content. As a result, the full utilization of the CPU goes for serving the web page and not the images.
Bandwidth is a crucial concern, too. Static content wastes a lot of bandwidth. Even that nowadays it's cheap, you still pay for it. Additionally, the throughput of the connection is physically limited. Since static content is likely to constitute around 90% of the bandwidth, that is a huge waste of the connection throughput. Simultaneously serving a page and 10 images means that the connection throughput for each of these 11 requests will be lowered. That automatically implies slower loading speed of your pages - something you and your visitors definitely don't like.
From what you have read or from your own experience, you are now convinced that delivering static content from your server is a repetitive, resource expensive and performance degrading task. Your server probably has its primary task to construct dynamic web pages as fast as possible. Why should it struggle with the repetitive task of delivering static content? Why not unleash the full potential of your server?
Apparently, you can easily let your server serve dynamic content only and take the burden of static content delivery away. That is accomplished by means of offloading.