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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by ymolodtsov »

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…

Not sure. They were cheaper than DigitalOcean, to the point where 1 DO instance cost would give you 3 on Hetzner, but now they're at parity, and DO seems to have a better product.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Lucasoato »

1dom wrote: post #79
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…

> I'm not choosing BunnyNet because it's european, I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service. That sounds like a GPT trope, and seems a slightly weird thing to say: the only reason I thought you might be choosing it because it was European was because your entire comment talked about how you were looking for EU alternatives, and how Bunny is better than other European alternatives.…

Here's an answer you can write in Hackernews:

   I'm really sorry if it sounded like a GPT trope, but that came 100% from me.
   Not that this is a guarantee of quality (actually it's not), but certainly
   authenticity. Probably I'm using so many agents lately that I'm starting
   speaking like them lol
If you want I can make it sound more natural, just let me know and I'll change it!

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by ymolodtsov »

heybales wrote: post #53
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #29

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Yes Hetzner is still vastly cheaper option but there are better options now compared to hetzner and the issue is the way that they handled the pricing. Its just simply unsustainable and burns a lot of trust/good will if you increase your prices 3x in such a short period of time Trust me when I say this but Hetzner really belonged in its category previously. I had scoured almost everything and nothing could provide th…

Are you a Hetzner customer? I'm a Hetzner customer, and my prices did not increase by 3x (it was more like 1.25x) and the price increase was communicated months in advance and several times. I am running stuff on their older infra, so maybe they handled it differently? When hardwares price go up at least 4x for storage and ram, I don't see how you can avoid price increases and they are still one of the cheaper/cheape…

Existing instances don't get a new price until you resize them.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by psini »

mhitza wrote: post #128
psini wrote: post #124

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Not saying there are companies going above and beyond for customer service but getting a human answer at all when spending single-digit euros a month seems impressive enough; then again I am european so certainly biased :) What would an american provider have done? Changed their pricing model for you?

My website traffic was a couple megabytes per month. I paid them for about 3 years for neglegible usage. Should I have zero expectation for paying because its cheap? You can be metered or fixed price. Mixing the two in the most inuintive way possible is a true innovation. /s Other cloud based provider have the option to pay for your usage to the cent. I guess that innovation didn't reach the EU. /s

My experience with all EU providers so far is yes, you do have to prepay, I think Hetzner for exemple was 20 euros when I signed up years ago?

Most likely they are unwilling to let customers pay later without any guarantee that they're good faith and solvent. Maybe it is a cultural thing? It's only my personal opinion but it never struck me as unreasonable.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kassner »

mhitza wrote: post #151
kassner wrote: post #137

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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).

It’s not like they’re going to put a debt collector after the $0.73 that you’d owe, so I’m not sure what was your point. If you want the services to continue you gotta have some balance. If they allow your account to run below balance I’d say that’s on them.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mhitza »

kassner wrote: post #166
mhitza wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It’s not like they’re going to put a debt collector after the $0.73 that you’d owe, so I’m not sure what was your point. If you want the services to continue you gotta have some balance. If they allow your account to run below balance I’d say that’s on them.

My point was to correct one claim in your previous comment.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by dust-jacket »

1dom wrote: post #83
Havoc wrote: post #67

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The one dollar thing isn’t as bad in practice as it sounds since it covers everything. Basically invoice minimum across everything so if you’re using the platform in any meaningful way it’s a non issue

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.

No, this is just a silly take.

AWS can make data export free, and no-one's going to shout at them that it's not free because it cost money to store the data there in the first place.

Bunny offers a number of services to paying customers. One of the services, that would previously have incurred a cost, now does not. It is free.

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