Optimizing files for speed help please!

[betolito]

Could anyone suggest any tips, links ect. to optimizing a website for fast downloading? Most of my site is composed of graphics and video and I notice it downloads painfully slow, especially flash and quicktime movies. As everyone here probably knows, slow loading pages is the kiss of death for adult websites,
so I would greatly appreciate any help here.

Thanks!
Alberto
www.visagefilms.com

[lb_vee]

I'll split this into two parts:

Optimizing Web Files:
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1) Fix database indexes
2) Optimize sql queries
3) use caching
4) use mod_gzip (compress html before shooting out to a browser)
5) review your html code and take out all the garbage

Media Files
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1) setup a seconday image server (one server for web files, one for media)
2) use thttpd (throttling http server)