Shlink: The Self-Hosted URL Shortener That Outlives Bitly Going Dark
Shlink is the definitive self-hosted URL shortener — every short link runs on your own domain, your own server, and your own database, so you keep working even when Bitly raises prices, Goo.gl shuts down, or your favorite free shortener disappears. 5K GitHub stars, MIT licensed, PHP 8 stack on Mezzio/Doctrine/Symfony, Docker-deployable, supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and SQLite. Custom slugs, visit analytics with GeoLite2 geolocation, a Progressive Web App for managing multiple instances, a REST API, and a CLI.
00:00 The short links that outlive their shortener
00:50 What Shlink actually is
01:55 The numbers behind 5K stars and v5.0
03:00 What you get out of the box
04:20 Self-hosted Docker install
05:35 Shlink vs Bitly
06:50 Built by the shlinkio team, MIT licensed
07:55 How to start
Repository: https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink
Website: https://shlink.io
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