is a text-hosting website where users can store plain text (code, logs, configs, etc.) and share it via a short URL. It’s widely used by developers, sysadmins, and cybersecurity researchers.

is especially good—it’s open-source, encrypted, and allows password-protected pastes with automatic expiration.

Yes. , Hastebin , and 0bin are popular alternatives. Rentry.co, in particular, supports Markdown and allows password protection.