What a pleasant post! Always cool to see new options popping up to make the web a little bit less centralized (the stranglehold that Cloudflare holds, admittedly in part due to them having both lots of features and good execution)
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#32Crucially Bunny offers prepaid plans. No risk of sudden six digit bills. So glad they’re adding many more services under this pricing plan in their recently announced Magic Containers roadmap.
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#33No way we move to a worse CDN only because some don't like Trump.
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#34No way we move to a worse CDN only because some don't like Trump.
Regardless of that, I’m always happy to see people try and free themselves from the increasingly centralized nature of the web.
I might not be brave enough to stop using CF, but people who do benefit everyone.
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#35What's the underlying stack? Fastly uses a version of Varnish underneath.
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#36This is all cool, but: > BunnyCDN was pretty consistently returning my blog post a few hundred milliseconds faster than Cloudflare Makes me think that author's CF was misconfigured. Unless you're in a zone with really bad interconnects, like Brazil, or African locations, multiple hundreds of milliseconds shouldn't be possible as the baseline, much less as the difference in the saved latency. (I'm assuming the author…
There is a long-standing dispute between Cloudflare and Germany's biggest ISP, Telekom, which results in terrible peering for Cloudflare free traffic for Telekom customers here. Sites on the Cloudflare Pro plan are not affected by this somehow. If the author is a Telekom customer, then they would absolutely see 100ms+ improvements.
DTAG is just terrible. Having a whitelist of allowed mail providers they deal with? Check. Abusing peering to squeeze more cash? Check. Advocating for censorship on the Internet? Check.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bunny.net explicitly names third parties handling user data, while Cloudflare’s policy is more vague, referring only to "third-party service providers" without listing specific companies. I like the bunny policy more. It is more transparent.
Yes and yes. But still good to know if someone pick a service with this intention: "I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare."
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
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#38It will be fascinating to see if the protectionist foreign policy that's been adopted by the US will lead to an improvement in the quality of services available elsewhere.
Previously, the friction of using a service with slightly rougher edges would have tipped the scales against it. Now, it seems we have a kind of patriotism emerging in our purchase decisions.
Ultimately, it should give us all more choice through strengthened competition.
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#39No way we move to a worse CDN only because some don't like Trump.
If Trump steps back from the GDPR US-EU data transfer agreement then your political stance is irrelevant.
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#40BunnyCDN has a great product offering, particularly if you've used Backblaze B2 as "ultra-cheap" object storage, the BunnyCDN product is very competitive pricing-wise, and the CDN configures seamlessly with it. And you can set up a cheap image transform proxy on any of your CDNs. R2 is cheaper though if you storage cost is less than your bandwidth cost, and B2 has a feature to automatically expire items which dependi…
Cloudflare sales folks are notorious for randomly emailing you and forcing you to suddenly buy 1k+ usd plans out of nothing suddenly.
Be wary of that scenario, it happens quite often if you observe cloudflare’s reddit sub. I think most folks are ok paying for stuff , aws being 10x more expensive wouldnt be so successful if people didnt like paying.
But predictability is important, and cloudflare salesmen can tend to be a bit unpredictable and unprofessional and extensively attempt to use all sorts of pressure tactics to reach their sales quota, so be careful.
I’m saying it as someone who extensively uses Cloudflare Workers and pay for their monthly subscriptions.