Created by IND-Web.com, the Matter Distribution Network first opened its doors for alpha testing on the 28th of August 2009 with the aim to provide a simple form of Content Delivery at very low prices by enabling our customers to offload their static content with ease.
The initial idea is not new and was implemented on our own network to enable our Free blog users better hosting for static content by implementing improved browser caching techniques while removing the need for cookies.
When the browser makes a request for a static image and sends cookies together with the request, the server doesn’t have any use for those cookies. So they only create network traffic for no good reason. You should make sure static components are requested with cookie-free requests. Create a subdomain and host all your static components there.
Taken from: Yahoo! Developer Network – Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site – Use Cookie-free Domains for Components
Due to the transparent methods used by offloading, we quickly realised that static content can be manipulated on the fly enabling useful features such as javascript and cascading style sheet minification and some basic image manipulation while storing all versions within our cache.
Your static files can be controlled by logging in to your account and can be deleted or have expire times set on a global or per file basis giving you total control of how much storage you use.
Visit our ‘How it Works!‘ page for more details.