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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by dzonga »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #60
piva00 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is comparable to Hetzner in price/scale/features?

If you want very small servers: either get a 7$/yr vps or (upcloud if all you want is 1gb ram/1core esq server for very lightweight purposes) The thing after Hetzner's price increase is that there isn't one size fits all anymore and I guess it might not impact people like me who knows in my opinion, many providers but in this situation its a net loss for many who might be paying higher prices. So here is my small lis…

are there US based providers i.e data centers in the US you recommend for cheap VPS like the one the $7/11 year VPS options you mention since most of those are European based ?

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by inigyou »

dizhn wrote: post #93
1dom wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 1 dollar thing, I think, looks exceptionally bad because it shows that what Bunny says can't be taken at face value. The fact is we're here because they posted a blog talking about how great they are making DNS free "because a faster internet won’t build itself". But now I've just learnt from comments on HN that Bunny DNS isn't free. They've lost my trust before they even had it.

Besides $1 means you need to give them your credit card from day one. That's probably the only reason they have that minimum limit to begin with.

KYC is a thing in Europe. Internet infrastructure businesses won't do business anonymously as they'd be held liable for anything their anonymous customer did.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by sebiw »

Sibexico wrote: post #109

Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.

Domain Registrars usually have shitty, subpar DNS eg. without Anycast or DNSSEC.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by ralish »

Sibexico wrote: post #109

Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.

Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head:

- Akamai DNS

- AWS Route 53

- Azure DNS

- Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan)

- Google Cloud DNS

And many, many others. And I note the site you posted this comment on is using Route 53, so probably paid as I doubt their query volume would be in the free tier.

Paying for DNS for personal/hobby stuff is probably pretty uncommon, because like you say, most domain registrars will offer it for free. But commercial websites often will, particularly larger ones with serious traffic.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mhitza »

Lucasoato wrote: post #17

Kudos to the BunnyNet team! I've always looked for a EU based alternative to Cloudflare; not because I didn't like them, I still support Cloudflare and they're a great company, but pushing for and testing EU services is important particularly in the light of recent developments in EU-US geopolitics. The problem is that many European companies aren't as competitive as their US counterpart. Consider Hetzner as an examp…

They are competitive price wise, but less competent human wise.

Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support. I've never had this experience with an US company (except the US giants) where support basically gives me an "it is what it is".

The most recent that really put the cherry on top.

I was planning on dropping them when running out of prepaid credits.

ALL SaaS software I've used before that had a top up option would notify me when my credits where about to run out. Bunny doesn't.

What is a point of a credit bar (progress bar) of you can go into negative? I went into negative.

There is no option to pay only what you've used, but the minimum necessary is a 10er.

Which should remain as credits in your account for future use.

But then you can't even spin down your usage by dropping everything because merely having the account you pay the monthly subscription of 1+vat.

Support: paraphrasing "that sounds right". And I could be quoting them with this for almost all 3 times I've interacted with them.

Yes, I am very much unpleased on customer support experience. But they are not unique and a symptom of multiple EU providers I've switched to in the last 3 years.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by nubinetwork »

> Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries

I've owned domains for ~20 years... I'm okay for paying for the domain, I'm okay with some of that money being used to maintain the DNS servers... I've never had a company charge for queries. Why would they do that?

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by matja »

Sibexico wrote: post #109

Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.

Amazon Route 53 is $0.40 per million DNS queries - which would terrify me if I used it, considering a typical 10Gbit server connection hosted at a unscrupulous ASN with no egress IP filtering is capable of sending a million DNS requests per second from random spoofed IP addresses.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by spiderfarmer »

nubinetwork wrote: post #117

> Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries I've owned domains for ~20 years... I'm okay for paying for the domain, I'm okay with some of that money being used to maintain the DNS servers... I've never had a company charge for queries. Why would they do that?

GeoDNS often isn't free.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by freakynit »

jeremyjh wrote: post #33

Their website loads really fast. Its sad that this is remarkable, but it really is.

Damn!! I just tried a few links from navbar... all loaded in an instant like they have already been cached, even though they were not (since I use firefox in full private mode, and haven't visited their site in like months before today).
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