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I was running a url redirect service at 4w4.net. I have accumulated around 900 members, but the site is always down now because i guess the provider banned my ips. So i want a host who can host a redirect service for me(unlimited subdomains, wildcards enabled, etc). I need around 8-10g a month...
Users sign up no matter what. A great deal of the people who sign up for these services do not even correctly fill out the form or even know what a url is. If you put a signup form for anything, users sign up.
neither does purchasing a domain. You don't need a credit card. You can use cash, check, money order, paypal etc. I have around 30 domains and no credit card
The main reason that cjb is good is because it has been around forever, and you have less to worry about in terms of your web address "disappearing" overnight.
Of course it is. It would only need to check when you sign up, not every time. You see it with nearly every simple linkexchange script out there. Sure, a percentage of people will defeat it or have coding on their page which is incompatible. What's that got to do with the price of tea in china...
"Easier said than Done" and "next to impossible" do not mean the same thing. All you'd have to do is post in a couple of forums or email a couple of webmasters and you'd find someone who could do it. In any case, if its such a burden just put console hell on all your members pages and take the...
well if you wanted you could have a script that checks whether your link is there, and if it isn't a bunch of popups get shown (like with spaceports). so i'd hardly say it is "impossible".
Also it barely uses up any bandwidth to run a redirection service of that size so who really cares. You...