vanityURLs' secret sauce is a JSON ledger

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The problem showed up in the usual small way: a Cloudflare dashboard label moved, a setup page still named the old path, and the next maintainer had to decide whether the documentation was stale or the product guidance had changed.

vanityURLs stands on Cloudflare’s shoulders. That is the point. A short-link redirector should not need a fleet of servers, a database, or a private control plane. It can run on Cloudflare’s serverless architecture and let Cloudflare stop noisy traffic before the Worker executes.

Documentation on vanityURLs

vanityURLs' secret sauce is a JSON ledger