Be careful about running a link shortener. They are very prone to abuse. They
don't cost money to run because of bloat but because they require a lot of
moderation. Spam is incessant.
NearlyFreeSpeech bans very little, but treats link shorteners as equivalent to
running a mail server on their
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:44:14PM +0300, Santtu Lakkala wrote:
> On 25.5.2023 6.47, Spenser Truex wrote:
> > There are a lot of bloated projects that I've found. Any suggestions?
>
> It uses symbolic links in a directory as a data backend. This should not
> have any race issues, as link creation
Hi,
On 25.5.2023 6.47, Spenser Truex wrote:
My internet friends and I have been wanting a shortlinks provider. How
can I do this in a suckless way? I'd like to be able to host the
shortlinks provider and easily let my friends point their own domains at
my VPS.
I used to just upload a HTML file
On 23/05/25 07:19PM, Spenser Truex wrote:
> I don't support this database heavy database stuff. A key-value pair
> dataset would be enough. It's basically a perl one-liner.
See (just a quick example): https://stackoverflow.com/a/43050919/184064
This is still not an ideal solution, but it
On 23/05/26 07:52PM, syg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just my two cents, but why not just store the link destination, even
> better, the HTML with the correct re-direction, in a file named
> according to the hash. You can then just serve it as-is. No lock
> problem. No database required. O(1) complexity.
>
>
Hi,
Just my two cents, but why not just store the link destination, even
better, the HTML with the correct re-direction, in a file named
according to the hash. You can then just serve it as-is. No lock
problem. No database required. O(1) complexity.
Of course this is only valid for a personal,
Thanks for the details! I have tough about hash maps but actually not
about simultaneous requests... this seems quite bad tho. (if you have
more than a few hundreds users?)
I know it is insecure, but I would store everything in a txt file where each
line is a link.
Why is that insecure?
On 23/05/25 10:29AM, Anthony wrote:
> On 5/25/23 07:29, Страхиња Радић wrote:
> > Perhaps the most minimal solution for keeping data would be TSV files, but
> > they
> > are not suitable for storing data entered from the web because of
> > concurrency,
> > so a "real" database would be needed.
>
On 23/05/25 10:29AM, Anthony wrote:
> What do you mean by, "because of concurrency"?
At any given moment, several HTTP clients can request posting data at the same
time. They can hang indefinitely in the middle of sending data. If the process
involves writing to a file, this can lead to data
On 5/25/23 07:29, Страхиња Радић wrote:
Perhaps the most minimal solution for keeping data would be TSV files, but they
are not suitable for storing data entered from the web because of concurrency,
so a "real" database would be needed.
What do you mean by, "because of concurrency"?
I know it
2023-05-25 7:29 GMT+02:00, Страхиња Радић :
> Perhaps the most minimal solution for keeping data would be TSV files, but
> they
> are not suitable for storing data entered from the web because of
> concurrency,
> so a "real" database would be needed.
>
Probably it can be duct-taped writing new
Highlight:
Link shorteners always go down due to non-funding and bloatware
backends. Let's have a suckless one that is cheap to run!
On 23/05/25 07:02AM, Marcel Plch wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:47:20AM -0300, Spenser Truex wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My internet friends and I have been
On 23/05/25 07:02AM, Marcel Plch wrote:
> 2) Pick favorite Web stack
[...]
> I personally would go for Python/Django, I'm not sure how suckless that's
> considered (probably not at all)
[...]
> Web is in a sad state so
You answered your own question. Web is bloat, in particular HTML itself as
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:47:20AM -0300, Spenser Truex wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My internet friends and I have been wanting a shortlinks provider. How
> can I do this in a suckless way? I'd like to be able to host the
> shortlinks provider and easily let my friends point their own domains at
> my
Hello,
My internet friends and I have been wanting a shortlinks provider. How
can I do this in a suckless way? I'd like to be able to host the
shortlinks provider and easily let my friends point their own domains at
my VPS.
I used to just upload a HTML file with a redirect to the desired
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