On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:48:15 -0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ should link to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Advantages_.26_disadvantages . for a balanced view. I'll stick with my long URLs.
Balanced? That section lists a single bad example of an /advantage/ for long urls. If your host offers you absolutely no way at all to do any sort of mapping (no .htaccess, etc...) then you are being ripped off by them. PERIOD! Not even a free host is worth that level of service. And I say that because most of those crap free hosting are capable of having short urls.
;) So naturally, if you're actually paying for hosting, and they don't let you do something that a free host lets you do, you're being ripped off.