Shaarli

Shaarli is one of the longest-running open-source bookmarking services, with nearly 4,000 GitHub stars and a community-maintained history dating back to the early days of self-hosted web apps. Originally created as a self-hosted del.icio.us replacement, it has grown into a mature personal link archive that powers thousands of personal blogs, lightweight microblogs, and team link feeds — without ever pulling in a database server, a JavaScript SPA framework, or a build pipeline.

Common Use Cases

Web professionals self-host Shaarli as a private read-it-later and bookmark archive that survives browser switches, OS reinstalls, and account migrations — every link is theirs, on their domain, with an RSS feed they can subscribe to from any reader. Open-source maintainers publish a public Shaarli as a curated link blog, sharing daily reading and project updates the way the early link-blog generation did. Small teams point a private Shaarli at a shared domain so designers, engineers, and PMs can drop reference links into one searchable feed instead of a chat channel that gets buried. Microbloggers use Shaarli as a Twitter-style stream of short Markdown notes published under their own domain with full RSS support.

Key Features

• Flat-file PHP datastore — no database server required
• Public, private, and unlisted bookmarks with per-link visibility controls
• Built-in RSS and Atom feeds for both public and authenticated reader URLs
• Markdown notes and microblog-style posts alongside link bookmarks
• Tag cloud, tag autocomplete, and full-text search across the archive
• Bookmarklet for one-click saving from any browser
• Typed REST API for mobile apps, scripts, and CI integrations
• Plugin system with QR codes, archive.org snapshots, Wallabag, and more
• Configurable themes with mobile-friendly responsive layouts
• Single-binary backups — copy the data folder to back up the whole instance

Why deploy Shaarli on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Shaarli on a Hostinger VPS gives you a private, always-on personal bookmarking service under your own domain without the resource overhead of a full database stack. The flat-file storage means even the smallest VPS plan handles tens of thousands of bookmarks without breaking a sweat, while the persistent volume protects your link archive across container updates. Self-hosting also keeps reading habits and saved links private — there is no third party logging which articles you save or how often you revisit them. Full root access lets you tune PHP-FPM for your traffic patterns, install plugins for QR codes and archive snapshots, and integrate with backup pipelines that simply copy the data folder.