Short URL Services

There are many "free" short URL services on the Internet. I suggest using these third pary services places one at the mercy of these services. If they go down, which is often, all the links supplied are dead.

There is another way, which I recently incorporated on the SQL server of my Web Hosting Company. A Hosting Corporation is probably as reliable as the internet can become. This is simple software, easy to install, and totally under the owner's control.

Here is the URL to the software for those interested. http://www.gentlesource.com/short-url-script/

Example.

You get this: http://www.durgan.org/ShortURL/?CAEZO

Instead of this: http://www.durgan.org/2008/July%202008/14%20July%202008%20Sunflower%20(Helianthus)/HTML/