Comments on: TinyLink gets a Public API

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:45:53 +0000

Hey Neville. Well at the moment it's hosted on the Afrigator server. You know how resources go

It's just a few php scripts with a mysql backend and I have no idea on what type of load it can take just yet seeing as there simply isn't much.

As it's a really light-weight application I think the bigger issue will be how many simultaneous connections mysql & apache can handle on the server because that's where the real potential issue will come from.

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:45:53 +0000

Hey Neville. Well at the moment it’s hosted on the Afrigator server. You know how resources go

It’s just a few php scripts with a mysql backend and I have no idea on what type of load it can take just yet seeing as there simply isn’t much.

As it’s a really light-weight application I think the bigger issue will be how many simultaneous connections mysql & apache can handle on the server because that’s where the real potential issue will come from.

By: Neville Newey

Neville Newey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:29:05 +0000

Well done Justin! Great to see stuff like this coming out of SA. Any details on the server? I would be interested to know where its located, what type of load it can take (probably not an issue right now) and of course what language the backend is written in

Regards

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:34:16 +0000

LOL. Don't be so literal. I honestly can't see it ever using 2 billion urls. TinyURL has been going since 2002 and is the most used url shortening service globally and they only have 50 million urls stored.

So, in essence, if we use them as an example they're doing 10 million urls per year. Based on that load it would take 217.6782336 years to fill up TinyLink's database.

Enough said?

By: Colin Daniels

Colin Daniels — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:19:22 +0000

Justin – So what you are saying is that in 10 years the site will be renamed to newtinylink.co.za?

By: Neville Newey

Neville Newey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:29:05 +0000

Regards

By: Dominique

Dominique — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:23:03 +0000

lol* methinks Colin not grasping the sheer magnitude of 2.1 billion records

besides, i can think of quite a few ways to easily extend tinylink's current capacity

imagine if somebody who actually LIKES math took a stab

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:08:06 +0000

Well Colin when(if) TinyLink ever fills that up – which i doubt will happen in the next 10 years – then we'll close it down for new urls and create a new TinyLink.

By: Colin Daniels

Colin Daniels — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:36:37 +0000

“TinyLink can hold a total of 2,176,782,336 urls”

Ok. And then wat?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:34:16 +0000

LOL. Don’t be so literal. I honestly can’t see it ever using 2 billion urls. TinyURL has been going since 2002 and is the most used url shortening service globally and they only have 50 million urls stored.

So, in essence, if we use them as an example they’re doing 10 million urls per year. Based on that load it would take 217.6782336 years to fill up TinyLink’s database.

Enough said?

By: Colin Daniels

Colin Daniels — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:19:22 +0000

Justin – So what you are saying is that in 10 years the site will be renamed to newtinylink.co.za?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:35:01 +0000

Didn't even think about that but now I've got a cool new angle! Preview page with thumbnails – excellent.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:23:03 +0000

lol* methinks Colin not grasping the sheer magnitude of 2.1 billion records

besides, i can think of quite a few ways to easily extend tinylink’s current capacity

imagine if somebody who actually LIKES math took a stab

By: Dominique

Dominique — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:54:32 +0000

Hey mate, nice work on the api, simple but effective

I'm finishing off a little pet project that will now use that api. Will run it by you for testing… and approval LOL*

As those link previews ( they better use myWebshots )

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:08:06 +0000

Well Colin when(if) TinyLink ever fills that up – which i doubt will happen in the next 10 years – then we’ll close it down for new urls and create a new TinyLink.

By: Colin Daniels

Colin Daniels — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:36:37 +0000

“TinyLink can hold a total of 2,176,782,336 urls”

Ok. And then wat?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:35:01 +0000

Didn’t even think about that but now I’ve got a cool new angle! Preview page with thumbnails – excellent.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:54:32 +0000

Hey mate, nice work on the api, simple but effective

I’m finishing off a little pet project that will now use that api. Will run it by you for testing… and approval LOL*

As those link previews ( they better use myWebshots )