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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mhitza »

kassner wrote: post #137
Diti wrote: post #131

I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other prod…

You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance. AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.

It's not purely prepaid otherwise I wouldn't be charged into negative (see my other comment in this thread).

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mmarian »

herodotus wrote: post #140

I am seeing way to many "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." from Cloudfare these days. It strikes me that, if it has verified my client once, it should hold off at least for a day or so before putting me through that hoop again. How does Bunny DNS deal with bot protection?

Not sure if you're talking about different sites or same one. If different sites, it doesn't make much sense to add that feature because site owners would rarely (if ever) want it. If same site, blame again the site owner who has the ability to configure challenge cookie expiry.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

joe-at-bunny wrote: post #74
bcye wrote: post #21

Very nice and a great service. I wish there API Keys were scoped however so setting up continuous deployments doesn't risk your, say, MX records getting changed if the key is leaked. And it would be very awesome if they would support IPv6-only origins for the CDN.

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing discovery on API key scopes at the moment, we don't yet have a public ETA for this but rest assured it's being worked on! Regarding IPv6-only origin support, We brought this in just last week! We now support IPv6-only addresses direct as an origin, as a hostname, as well as dual stack hostname resolution. Best, Joe

Hey Joe, just to pile on...

If you had have supported API key scoping then I'd have a ton of businesses/startups running on you. As it stands currently it's difficult for me to recommend you to orgs that are scaling up. Compliance in particular was the biggest issue. For one-man shops it's a no-brainer.

In your defense, Cloudflare has historically also sucked in this area.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to this feature!

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mmarian »

kassner wrote: post #137
Diti wrote: post #131

I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other prod…

You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance. AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.

Problem is, Cloudflare's free tier plan effectively sets the limit to $0.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mikkei »

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?

Well, AWS is an example of provide who does charges for it, starting at $0.4/million queries...

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by tpetry »

bcye wrote: post #21

Very nice and a great service. I wish there API Keys were scoped however so setting up continuous deployments doesn't risk your, say, MX records getting changed if the key is leaked. And it would be very awesome if they would support IPv6-only origins for the CDN.

I wish for the sme. Right now I‘ve created specialized edge functions to e.g. make a deployment which has the global access key.

So, my scripts on my servers dont have the bunny api key. Its only saved within those edge functions and I authenticate against the edge functions.

A little bit more effort than scoped keys but it works

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by tpetry »

is_true wrote: post #102
joe-at-bunny wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing discovery on API key scopes at the moment, we don't yet have a public ETA for this but rest assured it's being worked on! Regarding IPv6-only origin support, We brought this in just last week! We now support IPv6-only addresses direct as an origin, as a hostname, as well as dual stack hostname resolution. Best, Joe

Hello Joe. How does the USD1 minimum works? Say I have setup a pull zone and i don't use it for over a month, I get charged anyway? Thanks.

Yes. You‘re getting charged. But a dollar for your entire bunny account (not for every service or domain) is not that much to ask for.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by metadat »

jeremyjh wrote: post #30
scandox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well that's a strange way of expressing competitiveness when Hetzner is still vastly cheaper than those 3 cloud providers, despite those cost increases.

They are vastly cheaper even than their actual competition in the US like Digital Ocean. edit: Actually I had completely missed the most recent price update. I made this comment referring to April 1st pricing. I did not receive a communication about the June 15th update, because it did not apply to existing resources. This gives the breakdown: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi... I have two…

That is shockingly more expensive. Damn, rip hetzner.
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