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Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by bensyverson »

kugelblitz wrote: post #38

I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS. I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides "free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now". I'd rather have a low fee now, a change from $2 to $3 is more likely and that's fine for me. But from free to not free is risky for me. I also like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That…

Well said. I use bunny.net for many of the same reasons, and to support diversity of solutions in the internet ecosystem.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by kay_o »

freedomben wrote: post #63
joladev wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I realize I overdid it on the affiliate links so I've called out the link and removed some others. Just thought it was nice that they had an affiliate program. Nothing shady intended!

Thanks, just something to be mindful of in the future. It unfortunately can discredit your work if not clearly disclosed. Thanks for the post!

A bit more than discredit, this is almost always against affiliate terms so you don't get payout and often actually illegal for not disclosing compensation.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by ghurtado »

arcza wrote: post #99
gruez wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah IANAL, but this sort of endorsement with undisclosed remuneration would probably run afoul of FTC guidelines, which is why you see disclaimers like "As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases" everywhere. The author seems to live in the UK, but a cursory search suggests there's something similar there as well.

Maybe the whole world is not in the U.S. What is the FTC? The Royal Air Force Flying Training Command?

> Maybe the whole world is not in the U.S

Not yet. Working on it, though.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by whh »

jFriedensreich wrote: post #101

Cloudflare is not a CDN anymore but the workers edge platform, if you can move to bunny.net, you were not really using cloudflare. I don't understand how none of the alternatives really embrace WinterTC If i see something horrific like: import * as BunnySDK from "@bunny.net/edgescript-sdk" BunnySDK.net.http.serve(async (request: Request) => Thats a proprietary lock-in worse than what it tries to replace!

FWIW, Cloudflare's edge platform is pretty proprietary too.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by whh »

I've been on Bunny for a while now, personally. It's pretty good, and I managed to dodge the last major Cloudflare outage which was nice.

But, a few things could be more straightforward. Cloudflare makes the whole static site and DNS zone piece feel far more seamless. With Bunny you will still need to stitch records between different parts of their dashboard.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by oasisbob »

akdev1l wrote: post #44
kugelblitz wrote: post #38

I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS. I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides "free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now". I'd rather have a low fee now, a change from $2 to $3 is more likely and that's fine for me. But from free to not free is risky for me. I also like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That…

>I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides "free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now". You can just move to another provider at that point. At least when it comes to CDN and DNS there’s literally no vendor lock-in. You can grab your dns records export them to csv and import somewhere else easily and a CDN is just a file server so you can ju…

> At least when it comes to CDN and DNS there’s literally no vendor lock-in.

ehhhh, really depends on which CDN features you're using, and at what volume. Using ESI? VCL? Signed URLs or auth? Any other custom functionality? Are you depending on your provider's bot management features which are "CONTACT FOR PRICE" with other providers? Does your CDN provider have a special egress deal with your cloud provider?

It's possible to picture this being easy in the same way that being multi-cloud or multi-region is easy.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by PKop »

miyuru wrote: post #23
joehart42 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

not everyone lives in the USA or earns USA based salaries. also I said this in a another thread, they charges 1$ even for single testing http request. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873521

Why would you be a useful target market for a business running these services then? Seriously, if you can't pay anything at all, of what value is catering product offerings to you? It is thus irrelevant that you aren't happy with not being offered a free service.

Re: Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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Post by jFriedensreich »

whh wrote: post #135
jFriedensreich wrote: post #101

Cloudflare is not a CDN anymore but the workers edge platform, if you can move to bunny.net, you were not really using cloudflare. I don't understand how none of the alternatives really embrace WinterTC If i see something horrific like: import * as BunnySDK from "@bunny.net/edgescript-sdk" BunnySDK.net.http.serve(async (request: Request) => Thats a proprietary lock-in worse than what it tries to replace!

FWIW, Cloudflare's edge platform is pretty proprietary too.

The platform yes, but the runtime and the APIs are apache 2.0 licensed and uses web standards wherever possible. Thats way more open than most alternatives i am aware of.
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