liteshort is a link shortener designed with lightweightness, user and sysadmin-friendliness, privacy, and configurability in mind.
liteshort is a link shortener designed with lightweightness, user and sysadmin-friendliness, privacy, and configurability in mind.
*Why liteshort over other URL shorteners?*
*Why liteshort over other URL shorteners?*
liteshort is designed with the main goal of being lightweight. It does away with all the frills of other link shorteners and allows the best of the basics at a small resource price. liteshort uses under 20 MB of memory idle, per worker. liteshort has an easy-to-use API and web interface. liteshort doesn't store any more information than necessary: just the long and short URLs. It does not log the date of creation, the remote IP, or any other information.
liteshort is designed with the main goal of being lightweight. It does away with all the frills of other link shorteners and allows the best of the basics at a small resource price. liteshort uses under 20 MB of memory idle, per worker. liteshort has an easy-to-use API and web interface. liteshort doesn't store any more information than necessary: just the long and short URLs. It does not log the date of creation, the remote IP, or any other information.
liteshort uses Python 3, [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/), SQLite3, and [uwsgi](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for the backend.
liteshort uses Python 3, [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/), SQLite3, and [uwsgi](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for the backend.
