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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Chu4eeno »

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?

Wasn't Privacy Pass supposed to fix this? Let the browser generate and store some PoW or something that it hands off to the site, so each site doesn't have to do the same thing.

https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension seems kind of dead (a dependabot zombie).

eta: I completely missed this two days ago: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl...

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Diti »

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.

Where in the terms of service or in the admin UI do you see this information? You can pre-pay, yes, and the CDN service (and ONLY the CDN service) has a setting to stop the billing. But the other services do not seem to have a limit on how much you can get billed.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Chu4eeno »

farfatched wrote: post #15
tao_oat wrote: post #12

I'm using Bunny DNS and it's been mostly unremarkable (which is a very good thing for a DNS provider)! The only annoyance is that their domain import auto-detects existing records, but it seems to miss a lot of them so you end up manually copying a lot of things over anyway.

In their defence, nobody can implement auto-detecting domains well, because there's no way to efficiently enumerate DNS records. (Excluding NSEC-style enumeration, which is not always available.)

I feel like I'm missing something, AXFR?

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by shimman »

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.

You don't need a credit card on file, you can prepay and use that balance instead.

I'll also say that I've used around 140 gigs of bandwidth the last two months and my costs has only been <$2. Worth it to me, and doubly worth it to avoid the tyranny of big tech (which includes cloudflare).

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Chu4eeno »

dieselgate wrote: post #177
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?

"Edge" was the new "client", now it's everything outside your own servers, or at the border between your server and everyone else.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kassner »

Diti wrote: post #202
kassner wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Where in the terms of service or in the admin UI do you see this information? You can pre-pay, yes, and the CDN service (and ONLY the CDN service) has a setting to stop the billing. But the other services do not seem to have a limit on how much you can get billed.

I don't have a credit card on file, I'm not sure how they are going get paid if my balance goes negative.

Also: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000235911-How...

But yes, other services will run until your account is dry, then it gets suspended. You can't set a spend limit on your scripts without it taking down the whole account. You can't do cost optimization, but at least you are protected from going bankrupt.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

lokar wrote: post #193
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #192

Faster name resolution is chasing a local maximum. The better path to improving the internet is to rely on DNS less and content addressing more, that way content stays accessible as long as somebody on your part of the network has it.

Something still has to locate the resource you want, and that will involve something equivalent to DNS.

Sure but it's a different game if instead of finding the machine that has the data, it can find any machine that has the data. That machine might be elsewhere on your lan or elsewhere in your city.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by rekabis »

chpatrick wrote: post #32
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hetzner can't magically buy cheap hardware and prices have multiplied the last year.

The problem is that the company is burning existing customers - for whom the hardware has already been long purchased - to subsidize new customers coming in during this time of higher hardware costs.

And burning existing customers costs a lot more than soaking new customers. Churn always costs far more in lost revenue than a slowdown in new customers. Plus, it impacts market image in a deeply negative way.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by injidup »

nottorp wrote: post #77
injidup wrote: post #69

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Too bad, because it basically said they only use necessary cookies. I suppose you'd have complained if there were no cookie banner as well? I mean, that cookie popup saying there's no need for a cookie popup is probably there because someone complained there's no cookie popup...

The

"Appreciate it" / "cool carry on"

Is exactly the sort of confusing non choice options cookie banners give. Along the lines of

"Accept all" / "more information"

Then I'll retract my claim but it is bad UX to make a popup on the landing page that looks like an evil cookie banner.

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