Over the past week the site at TinyURL.com has been down several times, and when you need to shorten a URL to post via IM or Twitter, it is not good for a service that you have learned to trust to become unreliable.
I asked around to see if there was a open source solution that I could run myself, and I was pointed at Get-Shorty.com by someone that commented on a thread over at scripting.com.
The Get-Shorty.com team there has built Get-Short – a PHP- based application that allows you to run your own TinyUrl type of service.
I found three domains that would serve the purpose I want, but sadly I cannot just open them up to the public to use as the interface is not that fancy and only allows a single login. This is near a perfect solution for someone that does not want to rely on Tinyurl.com and has their own hosting account capable of running php applications. Get-Shorty.com
Todd,
I installed and tried this php app. It’s total JUNK. Its a beta, released in 2006, so it’s dead as far as I am concerned. Neither of the authors has emailed me back about the bugs I have found that have prevented it from working correctly on my server.
I will post all the issues on my blog in case you are interested.
…Thomas
Hi … we’ve recently launched a new service http://Shrinkr.com … still early days but we’re adding an api and directory service soon too