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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by toast0 »

dizhn wrote: post #5

It sounds like they made it free for customers for up to 500 domains. It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? >So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely. > Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise pla…

> It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting?

High end DNS hosting is often billed around the number of queries, number of zones, and number of records, number of special names with fancy features, etc. If you're switching from other DNS hosting, you might not even know what the query volume is, so that's kind of exciting when you need to make a switch.

If you were paying per query and the cost was too high, raising TTLs and consolidating services onto fewer hostnames are pretty achievable ways to reduce the query volume, so it is something you have some control over.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by dwedge »

Havoc wrote: post #67
dizhn wrote: post #5

It sounds like they made it free for customers for up to 500 domains. It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? >So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely. > Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise pla…

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

It is bad, because I don't use Bunny for anything else and so this made it paid DNS for me, so when I was migrating DNS a few months ago it made me rule them out.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by dwedge »

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.

Yeah I ruled them out months ago because it was $1, I saw this post and was about to reconsider them and in my case it's the same as it was.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by jeremyjh »

esperent wrote: post #238
jeremyjh wrote: post #221

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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 s…

For the most part I agree but poor performance on network block storage is very limiting. Also there is no object store service available in Ashburn, its only in EU. My point is more that DO has a complete modern cloud platform, and Hetzner doesn't quite.

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Post by matt-p »

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

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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

there's a few like https://lowendtalk.com https://serversearcher.com

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by matt-p »

piva00 wrote: post #34
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #29

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Yes Hetzner is still vastly cheaper option but there are better options now compared to hetzner and the issue is the way that they handled the pricing. Its just simply unsustainable and burns a lot of trust/good will if you increase your prices 3x in such a short period of time Trust me when I say this but Hetzner really belonged in its category previously. I had scoured almost everything and nothing could provide th…

What is comparable to Hetzner in price/scale/features?

Many smaller providers have reasonable price/features but you need to dig in a comparison site or just generally to find them I guess. Like e.g serversearcher.com serverhunter etc

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Chu4eeno »

meeb wrote: post #248
Chu4eeno wrote: post #203

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I feel like I'm missing something, AXFR?

Almost no mainstream existing provider you’re migrating from would support AXFR from Bunny’s servers. But yes, AXFR would be the ideal solution in a perfect world.

iirc at least some providers let you whitelist AXFR for migrating away from them, but seems like it is usually only if you pay enough (i. e. restricted to enterprise plans).

Since it's much rarer than I thought, I guess it makes sense bunny haven't implemented support for ingesting with AXFR.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kassner »

da768 wrote: post #254

Now we just need a EU based alternative to Let's Encrypt

It depends how much EU do you need. ZeroSSL is through HID Global, part of Assa Abloy, a Swedish public company. HID, however, is American according to Wikipedia. Caddy uses ZeroSSL by default.

If you want only single host certificates, Actalis is Italian and issues free ones as well: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Actalis.com-...

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