Creating your own TinyURL

Question

I have just found this great tutorial as it is something that I need.

However, after having a look, it seems that this might be inefficient. The way it works is, fir

Answer 1

You could of course add ordering by simply numbering the urls:

http://mytinyfier.com/1
http://mytinyfier.com/2

and so on. But if the hash key is indexed in the database (which it obviously should be), the performance boost would be minimal at best.