https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/511c5a72-4f11-4ace-972f-461dde5b609f Shlink is a URL shortener you own: tidy short links with QR codes and visit counts. Hosted on ElfHosted, your short links keep working. With hosted Shlink on ElfHosted, your short links keep working: a short link is a promise it'll still resolve months from now, so we keep yours online around the clock, updated, and backed up daily, with restores you can do yourself. It comes with two addresses: your short links are public, so anyone you send one to just follows it, while your dashboard stays behind your ElfHosted login. The dashboard comes already connected, with its API key kept on our side, so there's nothing to paste. If something goes wrong, Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, checks your actual apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks before fixing it. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. What is Shlink? An open-source URL shortener from the Shlink project. Long, ugly addresses go in and tidy short links come out, with a short code you choose or a random one. Tag and group your links, generate QR codes on demand, and set a link to expire on a date or after a number of visits. Each link counts its visits, what referred them, and what kind of device followed it; visitor locations aren't recorded in this version. It's sized for personal and small-team use, and it's new to ElfHosted and in early access. Shlink is part of the ElfHosted Flex collection: a Flex plan runs several apps from the collection at once, and you swap which ones whenever you like. Every Flex plan starts with a 7-day trial. ElfHosted is not affiliated with the Shlink project. You can support Shlink's developer through the link below. When Sam can't help, our team is on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Try it with ElfHosted Flex: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/flex/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=shlink Shlink docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/shlink/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=shlink ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=shlink The Flex collection: https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex-collection/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=shlink Support the Shlink developer: https://github.com/sponsors/acelaya Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:17 What is Shlink 0:32 Running Shlink yourself 1:01 Hosted Shlink, kept running for you 1:17 Public links, private dashboard About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #Shlink #ShortLinks #ElfHosted Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:08:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/511c5a72-4f11-4ace-972f-461dde5b609f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.