5 Website Features You Can Easily Offload to Reduce Costs. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
The term "offload" or "offloading" in information technology and computer science refers to the transfer of something from your system to an external system. In the context of websites, your system is your website (and your web servers/web host), and the external system consists of third-party web services such as Google Analytics or Shopify. This article suggests five common site features that you can host elsewhere. Tools and services for a lean startup - A list.ly List. FiveSecondTest.