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		manquer 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deacti... Hard to imagine costs were ever a factor. For company running GCP and giving things like Colab TPUs free the costs of running a URL service would be trivial rounding number at best

b112 6 months ago [–]

Outside of bandwidth, I could run this entire service on a raspberry pi. No, I'm not exaggerating. It's just a text end of url to full url lookup.

I've handled far more traffic on single machines 20 years ago.

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