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Re: Bunny Database

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Post by dagss »

fspoettel wrote: post #61
cschmatzler wrote: post #45

fwiw, Bunny are the people that announced S3 compatibility for their object storage in Q2 2022 [1] > We can’t wait to have this available as a preview later in Q2 and truly make global storage a breeze, so keep an eye out! then apologised for missing that in September 2023 [2] > We initially announced that we were working on S3 support for Bunny Storage all the way back in 2022. Today, as 2023 is slowly coming to an…

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I was pretty excited to bring stuff over from Cloudflare but the missing S3 compat. and the communication around that was (and still is) a dealbreaker for me.

Why do you want to move from Cloudflare?

Asking because I was looking at both Cloudflare and Bunny literally this week...and I feel like I don't know anything about it. Googling for it, with "hackernews" as keyword to avoid all the blogspam, didn't bring up all that much.

(I ended up with Cloudflare and am sure that for my purposes it doesn't matter at all which I choose.)

Re: Bunny Database

#82

Post by jeromechoo »

deepsun wrote: post #77

Reminds me of how we got scarred by "parse.com" -- it was also a promising database, and our customer insisted on it, but after lengthy development and just before our project release turned out that they are shutting down and noone works on it anymore. Like literally their support said "uhm sorry folks, we're all hired by Facebook, no one is working on parse.com anymore".

parse.com was my last straw building on "as a service" startups because of this. DaaS is not even particularly good for hobby projects anymore given how easy it is to work with sqlite.

Re: Bunny Database

#84

Post by DonnyV »

cschmatzler wrote: post #45

fwiw, Bunny are the people that announced S3 compatibility for their object storage in Q2 2022 [1] > We can’t wait to have this available as a preview later in Q2 and truly make global storage a breeze, so keep an eye out! then apologised for missing that in September 2023 [2] > We initially announced that we were working on S3 support for Bunny Storage all the way back in 2022. Today, as 2023 is slowly coming to an…

You left out the part where they realized they couldn't ship S3 compatibility without rebuilding their storage service. So they have decided to rebuild their storage service. Not really a small project. So I can see how its taking longer. At least they were transparent about it.

Re: Bunny Database

#85

Post by written-beyond »

grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

Backups are a PITA I wanted to go exactly this route but even though I had VMs and compute I can't let any production data hit it without bullet proof backups.

I setup a cron job to store my backups to object storage but everything felt very fragile because if any detail in the chain was misconfigured I'd basically have a broken production database. I'd have to watch the database constantly or setup alerts and notifications.

If there is a ready to go OSS postgres with backups configured you can deploy I'd happily pay them for that.

Re: Bunny Database

#86

Post by fspoettel »

dagss wrote: post #81
fspoettel wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I was pretty excited to bring stuff over from Cloudflare but the missing S3 compat. and the communication around that was (and still is) a dealbreaker for me.

Why do you want to move from Cloudflare? Asking because I was looking at both Cloudflare and Bunny literally this week...and I feel like I don't know anything about it. Googling for it, with "hackernews" as keyword to avoid all the blogspam, didn't bring up all that much. (I ended up with Cloudflare and am sure that for my purposes it doesn't matter at all which I choose.)

A couple of reasons:

- The free CDN is basically unusable with my ISP Telekom Germany due to a long-running and well documented peering dispute. This is not necessarily an issue with Cloudflare itself, but means that I have to pay for the Pro plan for every domain if I want to have a functioning site in my home country. The $25 per domain / project add up.

- Cloudflare recently had repeated, long outages that took down my projects for hours at a time.

- Their database offering (D1) had some unpredictable latency spikes that I never managed to fully track down.

- As a European, I'm trying to minimize the money I spent on US cloud services and am actively looking for European alternatives.

Re: Bunny Database

#88

Post by fspoettel »

gsanderson wrote: post #67
fspoettel wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I was pretty excited to bring stuff over from Cloudflare but the missing S3 compat. and the communication around that was (and still is) a dealbreaker for me.

I'd like it too. The new docs do refer to it e.g: > When S3 compatibility is enabled (currently in beta), the number of available replication points is reduced I assume it's a private beta. https://docs.bunny.net/storage/storage-tiers#s3-compatibilit...

It indeed is. Support answer:

> This feature is currently in the closed beta stage. It is not available for use currently, but it's expected to be in the near future. We appreciate your interest in it and will mark your ticket so we can notify you when it's available.

Re: Bunny Database

#89

Post by dabinat »

4star3star wrote: post #8

Why choose this over Cloudflare D1?

Small companies often have much better technical support than large companies where you just get lost in the system. One of the reasons I moved away from R2 was that it was impossible to contact anyone about the serious issues I had with the product. I’m using Bunny for CDN and have found them to be very responsive.
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