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BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

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Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

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post #15

I tried using their Magic Containers product and there were issues that showed a lack of attention to detail as well. It's supposed to scale globally (magically!) but I found multiple cases where particular nodes were problematic and the health checks didn't detect them (in fact to start with the health checks didn't even work properly if you had multiple containers, they did fix that). The support was quite slow too…

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Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#22
post #18

Reply in thread from Bunny: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_ha...

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the full quote is:

"does not matter if this is an isolated edge case. Data loss for 15 months with poor support isn't something that can be waved off as 'edge case'. The fact I had to go to Reddit to get someone's attention for this is insane. By the way, I tried reaching out to various 'senior management' personnel via LinkedIn last year and no-one replied. Escalation requests via the Support thread ignored and declined. Very professional of you guys."

and that seems pretty damn reasonable of a reply. the fact they had to go to reddit is insane. a sarcastic "very professional of you guys" is pretty tame, given the situation, and not discrediting at all.

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#24
post #4

That's scary. I'm in the process of moving all of my services to Europe, and I had considered BunnyCDN, but after this I'm not so sure anymore. I also tried Hetzner Object Storage. I love Hetzner, they're great, except for their Object Storage service, which is completely unreliable (errors, slowness, etc.). I'm surprised that Hetzner still hasn't retired that product until it's properly fixed. My last chance is with…

Bunny's CDN is great. The issue in the post is about their file storage service not the CDN.

For my storage needs in the EU I'm using Upcloud's object storage. Very happy with them. Then a Bunny cdn zone if I need to share the files publicly.

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#25
post #18

Reply in thread from Bunny: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_ha...

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It's a perfectly understandable response to what is essentially just corporate damage control. I'd be pissed too if I was in their position.

They've been ignoring the issue for over a year, yet it somehow took them only 4 hours after the reddit post was made to determine that it's "an isolated edge case", even though there's at least one other user reporting the same problem. The comment was clearly written with a focus on saving face rather than properly apologizing for the terrible support.

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#26
post #18

Reply in thread from Bunny: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_ha...

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Pretty mild when getting a reply that puts more energy into downplaying the problem than acknowledging that they've had an ongoing data loss issue for over a year and their support has been useless.

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#27
post #18

Reply in thread from Bunny: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_ha...

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You did a commendable job of ignoring all the op's (from Reddit) explanations and context to come to this weird output.

OP even actually responded to a similar comment in this reddit thread - look it up and tell me he wasn't reasonable. 15 months of fobbing him off, and once the case has been raised publicly the very senior guy _suddenly_ sees it as a priority despite it being just an edge case.

Really? Do you work for their PR or what?

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#28
post #20
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the story is true, remaining a user seems…terrifying?

Because they fixed a minor issue many years ago?

I believe "the story" was intended to refer to the horror story in the main post rather than the minor issue described in the comment above.

Re: BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

#29
post #4

That's scary. I'm in the process of moving all of my services to Europe, and I had considered BunnyCDN, but after this I'm not so sure anymore. I also tried Hetzner Object Storage. I love Hetzner, they're great, except for their Object Storage service, which is completely unreliable (errors, slowness, etc.). I'm surprised that Hetzner still hasn't retired that product until it's properly fixed. My last chance is with…

There is also OVH (not affiliated, just happily using their VPS), but I would consider switching to 2 providers, as any provider can have data loss or just lock your account at anytime for any reasons. 2 providers with free egress so you can easily replicate data between them.
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