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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 goobatrooba »

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…

To be fair, Hetzner didn't change prices for existing services, just for new customers / services added. I think that's a fair and realistic approach.

I guess what this reveals is that they were operating on really tight margins.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by is_true »

joe-at-bunny wrote: post #74
bcye wrote: post #21

Very nice and a great service. I wish there API Keys were scoped however so setting up continuous deployments doesn't risk your, say, MX records getting changed if the key is leaked. And it would be very awesome if they would support IPv6-only origins for the CDN.

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing discovery on API key scopes at the moment, we don't yet have a public ETA for this but rest assured it's being worked on! Regarding IPv6-only origin support, We brought this in just last week! We now support IPv6-only addresses direct as an origin, as a hostname, as well as dual stack hostname resolution. Best, Joe

Hello Joe.

How does the USD1 minimum works? Say I have setup a pull zone and i don't use it for over a month, I get charged anyway?

Thanks.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by pbronez »

“As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.”

This is smart. Ensures you have valid payment information, which implies a financial institution is running KYC on your customer. That reduces fraud and abuse while also reducing friction for real users to increase their spend within your ecosystem when a new product catches their eye.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by khurs »

whiterock wrote: post #86
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is a goldmine for cheap deals

https://lowendtalk.com

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Sibexico »

Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Havoc »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Huh?

It literally explains this in the blog post

> As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.

Sure seems like you’re trying very hard to find a problem here.

If you’re not down with their prepaid/$1 model there is always CF.

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