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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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

You can host static sites with no cost in multiple provider like cloudflare Page, Github Page etc.

Bunny is EU-based afaik, the ones you mention are not.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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My frugality had made me found cheaper options than Hetzner (at the cost of my sanity /jk) But, hetzner was a really solid deal especially for larger specs, literally nothing could compete with it as I used to make literal lists of providers in my head that can compete against Hetzner/ovhcloud and there were none . They were so good, too good in fact and I had actually felt like they were so giant that they would be…

mind sharing what you found in your search losing your sanity? :D

https://contabo.com/en/ Has been good for my mess around and hobby stuff

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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

You can host static sites with no cost in multiple provider like cloudflare Page, Github Page etc.

I would spend a dollar I'd it meant avoiding both of those companies.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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post #88

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I agree! It might even be an issue on my side, where I'm exposed to AI generated stuff that often that everything starts looking like a trope when it's not. Either way, I've seen more than enough in this comment section to make me want to avoid bunny for now anyway.

Interesting side thought, dunno if it would give any real indication, but I assume the difference between pasting a bunch of text vs typing each character would seem like a potential indicator (for now) whether someone might have used AI to respond.

If my comment is more than a few sentences, I’ll often type it up in my Notes app and paste it in. It means I don’t lose it if there’s some kind of technical issue, and I don’t run the risk of accidentally fat-fingering the Submit or Reload buttons. I do it with text messages too.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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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…

I’m not sure which Bunny service you’re referring to specifically but Bunny Shield can mitigate DDOS attacks and block bots.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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post #85

Free secondary or are people supposed to make them primary and manage their DNS through Bunny? If primary that is the same sales technique Cloudflare used. It works, once one's DNS is managed there enabling CDN features is just clicking buttons.

I've dug into this a bit and I'd say the answer is no, they do not support being used as a secondary.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Why do you think it's a better product? Slicker interface?

Hosted Postgres, hosted K8s, block storage that can IOPS.

The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal.

Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after switching. So to me, Hetzner has the superior product.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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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…

Quick glance on those two hosters and i cannot find these 7$ / y prices.

These are usually on flash-deals and especially during black fridays and cyber-mondays.

I had bought from TNAhosting during a flash-sale

Even at 7$/yr vps there are multiple providers with layering rates of confidence within the provider.

Here are some resources that I can give:

https://vpspricetracker.com

https://lowendtalk.com

here is a post by a Lowendtalk member about some of these price comparison websites

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/215318/price-comparison-si...

From the post:

https://www.serverhunter.com/

https://serverdeals.cc/

https://vpspricetracker.com

https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/best_vps

https://www.hostfind.co.uk/web-hosting/vps-hosting/

https://hostingsift.com/hosting?type=vps

I also recommend looking at serververify which is a website created by the creator of colocrossing iirc: https://serververify.com

I have personally used serverdeals.cc and vpspricetracker.com in the past and they are some good resources BUT most of what I have snatched are within flash-sales of various kinds, whether just for as providers running it for an advertisement way or when I was using a netcup instance on their christmas/Advent calendar deals.

Hope i am able to help and take care, my friend.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

#240

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My frugality had made me found cheaper options than Hetzner (at the cost of my sanity /jk) But, hetzner was a really solid deal especially for larger specs, literally nothing could compete with it as I used to make literal lists of providers in my head that can compete against Hetzner/ovhcloud and there were none . They were so good, too good in fact and I had actually felt like they were so giant that they would be…

mind sharing what you found in your search losing your sanity? :D

I have tried to discuss all of it in an other comment that I have written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658046 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664139

Hope it is able to be of help and it helps ya, take care!

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