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Highest cache hit ratio
New content you offload will be initially downloaded only once from the original URL and then cached on our servers. Consequent requests to that content will be entirely handled by our servers, except when refreshing the cache.Individual discounts
Once you are considered a long-term and loyal SteadyOffload subscriber, you will get individual discounts on the cost of bandwidth.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.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.Infinite scalability
The data-parallel infrastructure behind SteadyOffload is designed to handle extreme loads without sacrificing performance.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.Try it for free!
Every new subscriber obtains 5 GB of free bandwidth to evaluate the service!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.Have a clear sight over each byte flowing from your account
The SteadyOffload Control Panel provides you with all the details for each individual request sent to your account, draws senseful statistical graphs and gives you the ability to restrict access.Why SteadyOffload?
Once you understand that static content delivery is the key point in optimizing the performance of your website, you will decide to offload your static content. There are many solutions to choose from, and here is how we prove that SteadyOffload does its job best.Running a second server?
Apparently, the most intuitive solution to offloading is running a second server. But what are the drawbacks here?» Large fixed costs
Buying or renting a dedicated server for such a task is not cost-efficient. Spending a large amount of money to buy one or signing a contract and paying a fixed monthly bill is a risky and unreasonable investment.
With SteadyOffload you achieve a perfect cost-efficiency from the very beginning. The only thing you pay is the bandwidth you use, without any other fixed costs at all, without any contracts. Utilizing a small amount means that you will pay a few dollars rather than $300 each month for a decent dedicated server.
» Hard to scale infrastructure
What will happen when your website grows and you reach the limit of that single server you have bought/rented? Buying/renting a second one is the easy answer, but that brings a lot of headache with it. Proper load-balancing requires additional infrastructure and expertise.
What stands behind SteadyOffload is a large-scale infrastructure designed to adequately meet the individual needs of each subscriber. As your traffic constantly grows, you don't have to worry whether it will be handled or not - even the performance won't decrease slightly.
» Burden of setup and maintenance
Running a second server means that either you or someone else will have to look over it. This implies additional costs, time, or both.
Leave that task to the trusty SteadyOffload expert staff!
The drawbacks of having a dedicated server for static content are obvious, but what about
Image hosting services?
Another solution is to use an image hosting service. But again, it doesn't suit perfectly because:» Only images are supported
Image hosting services may do relatively well for offloading images, but that is not the case when you need to offload other types of files. Once you discover that a couple of PDF documents are causing you a bandwidth boom, you will be stuck.
SteadyOffload supports all types of files. Everything that resides on your web server and you consider static can be offloaded immediately. Plus, you can apply on-the-fly manipulations to images, like resizing, cropping, rotation, etc.
» Thumbnails are generated only once and in predefined sizes
Once you upload your image, its thumbnail is generated in a predefined size and you can't change the thumbnail unless you upload the original image again.
With SteadyOffload, you have the freedom, convenience and flexibility to define thumbnails directly through an attribute of the img tag, without treating the thumbnail as a separate file. See the thumbnail problem and the way we solve it.
» One-by-one manual upload is tedious
Most image hosting services provide an HTML upload form and hereby let you upload images one-by-one. Not only manual upload is tedious, but it can be a real obstacle.
As a SteadyOffload subscriber you don't upload anything to our servers. Instead, you upload everything to your server as before and then our cachebot regularly retrieves copies of your files. Simply said, the philosophy behind SteadyOffload is "Store on your server, deliver from an external source".
Apparently, image hosting services aren't well suited for offloading just because they were not designed for that. Then why not use
Content Delivery Networks (CDN)?
» $XXXX bills are unreasonableSteadyOffload makes CDN static content offloading pointless simply because the constantly growing infrastructure behind SteadyOffload forms a CDN itself, with dispersed points around the globe. You can pay hundreds of times less and your site can use a CDN.
SteadyOffload, as the name suggests, is a service especially suited for offloading. Each SteadyOffload subscriber has a control panel to watch the status of the offloaded requests, view his statistics and manage his subscription. Integration is easy and seamless. Good performance is guaranteed due to the latest network technology, server hardware and intelligent algorithms we employ.