9ox.net URL shortener closed

Post date: Mar 25, 2015 5:39:41 PM

Here's just the about page from the site as memory.

9ox.net credits, about, info

About

Do you hate long short urls like http://bit.ly/hUMuOq

or http://tinyurl.com/5wrvrpp which are short in theory,

but totally impossible to remember!

9ox.net solves your problem. We provide really tiny urls.

We can keep urls short because our urls expire

30 days after last visit or 365 days after creation.

Credits

Domain 9ox.net by SpamGourmet

Minimalistic URL shortener by Sami Lehtinen.

Powered by Google App Engine.

Disclaimer

Free service, no guarantees or warranties whatsoever.

Change log

2015.03.25 Service closed down, because Google closed Master/Slave datastore

2013.12.22 Version 4.10 released, service disabled

Service is disabled for non onion urls. .onion urls do still work.

Because I simply don't have time to maintain this

project. Deal with potential abuse etc. Otherwise I have been very

happy with Google App Engine and it's reliability and performance.

It was good as long as it lasted. - Thank you.

2013.02.16 Version 4.9 released

Minor internal restructuring & HTML structure improvements.

2012.12.01 Version 4.8 released

Added support for .onion domains.

2012.10.13 Version 4.7 released

Updated DNS proxies (IPv6 support dropped temporarily).

Now two primary DNS servers are hosted on own servers.

Only two backups are on located on web hosting services.

Primary servers are in EU & US and backup servers in US.

Failed server information is cached for one hour for

improved performance.

2011.12.18 Version 4.6 released

Google Safe Browsing API implemented.

Internal Memcaching improved.

2011.12.03 Version 4.5 released

Unicode URLs are now working perfectly.

Further improved caching. Now all redirects are public

and cacheable for 1 day.

2011.11.05 Version 4.4 released

Lot of tuning with Unicode urls, solution still isn't

perfect but it's working most of time.

Added second primary web-DNS service server. It's hosted on

another of my virtual servers, using uWSGI and Nginx.

2011.10.30 Version 4.3 released

Added two more backup DNS servers unless primary server

is unreachable or times out. Now service also supports

sites (domains) which have only AAAA DNS records. (IPv6)

2011.10.06 Version 4.2 released

SURBL checking using secondary Linux server added.

2011.10.01 Version 4.1 released

SURBL based spam checking activated. Now every link submitted

to service will be checked against SURBL reputation data.

2011.09.07 Version 4.0 released

JavaScript based spam checking activated. It also releases

server resources, because if JS is not evaluated from create

page database won't be accessed at all.

Frontpage is now fully cacheable, earlier GAE sent permanent

redirect but with no-cache tag. It's quite pointless afaik.

Now it's fixed. Frontpage is browser cacheable and there is

no additional redirect anymore.

2011.09.05 Version 3.1 released

Spam controls are tightened further. Now all URLs (domains)

in database are daily rechecked.

2011.09.03 Version 3.0 released

Database logic changed, now shorter urls are always preferred

instead of oldest urls. Lot of internal database access related

improvements.

2011.07.07 Version 2.1 released

Database uses is now using faster eventual consistent reads.

Memcache is used for caching data in memory.

2011.06.18 Version 2.0 released

Implemented three independent spam protection mechanisms.

One of those is WOT.

WOT should prevent creation of links to spam adverticed sites.

Unicode URL handling fixed. URLs like http://ä.Ö/€ do work now.

Exception handling and database transactionality and concurrency

improved further.

Added Changelog.

2011.04.11 Version 1.0 released

Database transactionality improvements.

Added Memcaching.

2011.03.24 Version 0.9 released

Let's see if this works out.

9ox.net - URL Shortener