I want to set up a similar service to makeashorterlink.com.  This is
simply a database of URL links and a script that generates a unique
numeric link to another page.

My service will link image attachments to anonymously and
transparently forward links.

For example,

https://answers.google.com/answers/answers-logo-sm.gif

becomes

http://link.com/646565468167.gif

The idea is so that when you want to post a holiday snap, etc. to an
online forum web page, but don't want to reveal your image's actual
host, you register a link and your webpage looks through the forward
to the image.  The database stores only links and not files.

I hope to set this up cheaply with a host and have it run hands-off.

A satisfactory answer would either set out in broad terms how I can
get this set up and which host would offer such a service.
Alternatively, set me straight and tell me that what I want isn't
feasible.

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Clarification of Question by spurious-ga on 22 Oct 2003 01:54 PDT

I have a partial answer to this (using refresh) I'll close this
question and repost a clean, clarified version.