Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money?

Re:Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money? by nuggien on Monday March 09, 2009 @05:08AM (#508164)

you could probably run it on a $5 dreamhost account and get away with it.

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Re:Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money? by melvinram on Monday March 09, 2009 @10:32AM (#508429)

I suspect tinyurl's hosting account costs more than $5

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Re:Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money? by duskwuff on Monday March 09, 2009 @06:04PM (#509151)

Dreamhost actually frowns heavily on URL redirection sites, as they tend to get abused by spammers if submissions aren't carefully screened.

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