Can the Hosting location of image files have a negative effect if 'off-site' such as on the devs own media server ?

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

Can the Hosting location of image files have a negative effect if 'off-site' such as if they are on the developers own media server ?  As opposed to on the actual websites server or file structure ?

In the case i'm looking at the image files are hosted on a totally separate server (a media subdomain of the developers site server) from the subject sites dedicated server.

Will engines still attribute the properties of files hosted in this manner to the main website (such as file name, alt attributes, etc etc) ? Or should they really be on the subject sites server own media folder ?

Cheers

Dan