Decimal points are important

Ben at Raspberry Pi wanted to use his new vanity domain rpf.io, as a URL shortener rather than the URL of the common big services. The easy solution was to use an existing service on a paid account which gives us analytics and tracking. However, demonstrating the age old principle of if you have to ask you can’t afford it, his email reads…

We like Open Source software, so instead of paying enough money to rent quite a nice car for a trivial .htaccess file we instead chose to install yourls on a little IPv6-only virtual machine behind our NAT64 and IPv6 Proxy services.

We’ve done some benchmarking, out of the box we could sustain 500 hits/second, adding in php-apc boosted this to well over 2000 hits/second which should be enough, even if Liz Upton gets very excited with the Raspberry Pi twitter account.

So you can test out the service here http://rpf.io/mythic before we start making these links public.