Link Shorteners

Created

Jan 11, 2021 4:42 PM

Looking to use a quick and easy link shortener:

git.io

Looking for reasons to not use bit.ly :

They use ad-tracking cookies

Building a custom link shortener:

YOURLS is a good open source project
Just need a LAMP stack server (Digital Ocean image good starting point)

YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener

YOURLS stands for Your Own URL Shortener. It is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service ( a la TinyURL or Bitly). Running your own URL shortener is fun, geeky and useful: you own your data and don't depend on third-party services.

yourls.org

Example: http://tstmk.rs/