Sometimes it's a good idea to post links under your own domain, so that you can change the link's target when it's needed¹.

For example, I have a Ko-Fi page at https://ko-fi.com/dtinth but I never link to that URL directly; I use http://link.dt.in.th/coffee instead. Should I ever decide to use something else², I only need to change the link destination.

One simple, low-code way to accomplish this is use Netlify's redirect feature.

1. Create a GitHub repo and create a file public/_redirects:

   /youtube   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKPjyxFSkk_dPg6YzN0Miw/   302
   /coffee    https://ko-fi.com/dtinth                                    302
   

2. Create a Netlify site linking to the GitHub repo and set up your domain.

3. There is no step 3.

The _redirects file has a simple, machine-and-human-readable, plain-text format. To add or change links, just update the file on GitHub. I find this approach powerful because I can also update this file programmatically using GitHub's API, and teams can collaborate on this file like how they collaborate on code.