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Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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I switched a year ago and have been absolutely loving them. Not just because we can support a EU based CDN, but their Magic Containers are amazing. I can have global instantly scalable API's that cost me barely $1 a month until used.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Unfortunately it doesn't offer free hosting for hobbyists. Even for superficial traffic you'll have pay 1 euro a month (plus VAT).

Not many DNS management providers (that I'm aware of, please correct me) support CNAME flattening. That is having your A record point to a CNAME.

Every time I purge the pull zone cache, I do it twice, cause once from my CI isn't enough. My CI does individual page cache invalidation during deployment, but there needs to be some kind of delay (with no feedback) when assets are distributed across.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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> It’s a single point of failure for the internet. Every Cloudflare outage ends up in the news.

I hear this argument all the time, but I think it's more complicated.

Firstly, if people used more diverse / smaller services the distribution of outages would change. While there will likely to be more frequent "smaller" asynchronous outages, many platforms can still break even when only one of their dependencies break. So, you might likely to face even more frequent outages, although not synchronous.

Secondly, we are not sure if these smaller services are on par with the reliability of Cloudflare and other big players.

Thirdly, not all Cloudflare infrastructure is fully centralized. There is definitely some degree of distribution and independence in/between different Cloudflare services. Some Cloudflare outages can still be non global (limited by region or customers that use certain feature set, etc).

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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post #3

Unfortunately it doesn't offer free hosting for hobbyists. Even for superficial traffic you'll have pay 1 euro a month (plus VAT). Not many DNS management providers (that I'm aware of, please correct me) support CNAME flattening. That is having your A record point to a CNAME. Every time I purge the pull zone cache, I do it twice, cause once from my CI isn't enough. My CI does individual page cache invalidation during…

oh no a euro a month for a service. How will we financially recover?

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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I’ve mainly been using cloudflare for the very excellent (and free) premium DNS offering.

Easy upload of bind test files Flattened CNAME to support naked domains Robust free role based permissions to add other ppl

Anyone have suggestions for moving a stack of domains, many being little community and hobby projects away from cloudflare for a small overall price. Agency pricing like migadu offers for email on custom domains is what I have in mind.

https://www.migadu.com/pricing/

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Nice ad.

>One of my biggest concerns though is around how easily I could become heavily dependent on this one single company that then can decide to cut me off [...]

How does switching to Bunny make a difference?

It would be super nice to have a setup that uses multiple CDNs w/ automatic failover.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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post #3

Unfortunately it doesn't offer free hosting for hobbyists. Even for superficial traffic you'll have pay 1 euro a month (plus VAT). Not many DNS management providers (that I'm aware of, please correct me) support CNAME flattening. That is having your A record point to a CNAME. Every time I purge the pull zone cache, I do it twice, cause once from my CI isn't enough. My CI does individual page cache invalidation during…

Man, come on now, it's 1.20 EUR a month.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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post #7

I’ve mainly been using cloudflare for the very excellent (and free) premium DNS offering. Easy upload of bind test files Flattened CNAME to support naked domains Robust free role based permissions to add other ppl Anyone have suggestions for moving a stack of domains, many being little community and hobby projects away from cloudflare for a small overall price. Agency pricing like migadu offers for email on custom do…

I make a point of using a dedicated service provider for each distinct service. YMMV but I'm happy with DNSMadeEasy (DNS), IWantMyName (registrar) and Fastmail (email).
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