It can be used, but I don't see an easy way. I'm think of moving all the static images to a tux or equivalent webserver to server those images blazing fast.
It would be very handy to be able to prefix all the images with another hostname, maybe css and js too. All the static content...
Maybe time for a feature request?
Hardware and performance
Page load optimisation article - multiple hostnames?
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