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Start your own URL shortener with awe.sm
Seems like everybody's starting their own url shorteners these days. There's the Diggbar, Amazon's shorturls, and a whole plethora of other shorteners all competing with one another. Well, now you can have your very own -- for a fee -- from awe.sm, which is a pretty great shortlink service in its own right. The service offers a hosted URL shortener on a domain of your choosing, along with access to awe.sm's already existing traffic anaysis tools and developer APIs. It'll run you $99 a year, with enough capacity to handle all the redirections you'll probably need -- if people create 10,000 of your new URL in a year, you're doing pretty well. Between the time it takes to code your own shortener, and the hosting costs of dealing with the traffic, awe.sm's prices look pretty reasonable.
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Aniruddh said 11:14PM on 5-15-2009
How about http://get-shorty.com/ & https://www.hover.com/ as a alternative?
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Adduc said 3:58AM on 5-16-2009
I can't imaging hosting costs for a URL shorten-er to be anything substantial. After all, most services just send out the header to redirect, less than a kb (by a lot) per link request. A single page like this one on DownloadSquad would likely be the equivalent of 300 to 400 link requests. As far as the cost's go, it's about $8.25 per month, comparable to a hosting service's price plan, but certainly there are cheaper ways to handle link redirection out there.
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Morgan said 3:34AM on 5-17-2009
One big part though is the complaints that go to your hosting company. You can explain all day, but if people complain about where they land, and the host doesn't want to hear it, or if someone links to a page with some kind of exploit, you are shut down. Two different services dropped me on one I ran years ago. I would probably use awe.sm if I did it again.
Alex Tayra said 8:07AM on 5-16-2009
..or make it for free with http://www.hido.net/projects/phurl/
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Ryan said 9:16AM on 5-16-2009
orga.sm
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Christian said 9:28AM on 5-17-2009
Just get Google apps for your domain.... they have URL shortening.
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jingjing said 4:31AM on 6-25-2009
i agree Adduc said 3:58AM on 5-16-2009
I can't imaging hosting costs for a URL shorten-er to be anything substantial. After all, most services just send out the header to redirect, less than a kb (by a lot) per link request. A single page like this one on DownloadSquad would likely be the equivalent of 300 to 400 link requests. As far as the cost's go, it's about $8.25 per month, comparable to a hosting service's price plan, but certainly there are cheaper ways to handle link redirection out there.
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