Website content is primarily provided from a static environment. Multimedia files that cannot be cached efficiently are provided from a large distributed elastic environment for high-performance access. A distributed application provides website access to a globally distributed user group. While most of the website has static content, there is a significant amount of multimedia content that needs to be streamed to users. Static website content is in a static environment where users access it. The streaming content is in an elastic cloud environment where it is accessed from a user interface component. Static content is delivered to users' client software which references the multimedia content. Streaming content retrieval is often handled directly by the users' browser software.