Advice for setting up a static file server with ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC

I would like to set up a subdomain (similar to stackoverflow's http://sstatic.net/) in order to serve static content for my existing web applications. I have never done this before and was wondering if anyone has advice - which technology to use (i am using the Microsoft stack), how i should structure the static site, what are the security and caching considerations e开发者_运维技巧tc.

ANY advice would be appreciated, Thanks in advance

Not to state the obvious, but if it's truly static, why do you need ASP.NET? This question has some advice on optimizing IIS as a static file server. If people do need to be authenticated to view static content, that will obviously complicate it slightly. sstatic.net does not use authentication.

I suggest you check out Amazon's S3 and Cloudfront services. Both are low cost and high performance. Their focus is serving up content.

I'm a happy S3 customer.

Added: You can easily set their services up so they appear as a subdomain of your site. Eg assets.yourdomain.com