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I noticed that major content delivering sites that are required to host their own set of images/video files have a sub domain i.

before their respective web addresses?

 

what does it represent, and what does it tell us about how they are storing their files? I know both websites are hosted on amazon aws.

But I dont know what the "i" means, and I feel like its a key piece in figuring out their storage solutions

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what does it represent

I assume "i" stands for image. It's just a name though.

what does it tell us about how they are storing their files?

The name of a subdomain doesn't tell anything about the server. It's just a name.
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They're not required to do it, it's just what they choose to do. The purpose is to allow more things to load at the same time. Browsers only allow a certain amount of requests from the same domain to be done simulataneously (it used to be two, but they probably allow more these days), so large websites put their content on multiple different domains to make the pages load faster.

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