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We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by benatkin »

mhitza wrote: post #167
kassner wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not an accurate correction. It's prepaid with an ability to incur a small amount of negative balance, partly for protection against downtime or data loss and partly so the systems can have some time to shut off (it would be hard to suspend service immediately across all services). However it is purely prepaid in that they don't provide a postpaid option.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by elashri »

I think it is a step in the right direction for bunny to be a competitive for the people on hobby/self hosting. But I think that having a free tier for CDN is what makes cloudflare attractive (Among other things).

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by mhitza »

benatkin wrote: post #171
mhitza wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's not an accurate correction. It's prepaid with an ability to incur a small amount of negative balance, partly for protection against downtime or data loss and partly so the systems can have some time to shut off (it would be hard to suspend service immediately across all services). However it is purely prepaid in that they don't provide a postpaid option.

That's a very uncharitable way of dismissing my claim that the parent claim of the service stopping automatically when you go over your credits is not true.

That's one thing. The second thing, I'm happy for you that you have more information about their pricing system than their pricing page and terms of service page state.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by littlecranky67 »

mhitza wrote: post #115
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 ha…

How much do you pay per month? Never expect a real human tech expert if you only pay 10$/month for something. A human talking to you for 15minutes destroys their entire profit margin on your payments for years. Unless you hit a bug or something in their system, support is expensive.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by ah1508 »

I just discovered bunny.net thanks to this post. I'd be happy to move my static websites on bunny.net, but is it possible (like on cloudflare) to map requests to /foo to the foo.html file ? According to what I read on the documentation it is not a edge rule.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by dieselgate »

ah1508 wrote: post #176

I just discovered bunny.net thanks to this post. I'd be happy to move my static websites on bunny.net, but is it possible (like on cloudflare) to map requests to /foo to the foo.html file ? According to what I read on the documentation it is not a edge rule.

Pardon my ignorance but am curious what is an "edge rule"? Is it a tech-related term (i.e. edge case) or a figure of speech?

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by KomoD »

mhitza wrote: post #115
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 ha…

> 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.

"Our system will automatically send multiple warning emails if your account balance drops beyond a certain point" from https://bunny.net/faq

I don't know what that "certain point" is, though.

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

Yeah, annoying but also understandable because of payment processing fees.

> 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.

That's incorrect, if you have zones, then you get billed €1/mo, if you don't have anything, then you aren't billed anything... this is my billing history:

Monthly usage for May, 2026: $1

Monthly usage for February, 2026: $1

Monthly usage for July, 2024: $1

Monthly usage for June, 2024: $1

Monthly usage for July, 2022: $1

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by sparkling »

khurs wrote: post #18

Just looked at their website, they don't do many loss leaders as others, for example others offer free static site hosting. But they are a private company with only one small $6m funding round back in 2022, so I think they are more focused on building organically and not chasing investor funded growth. Good luck to Bunny!

They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.
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