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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Isn't mullvad european?

Yes, but nobody is by default held liable for their anonymous customers. Otherwise you would not be able to buy anything with cash any more.

In Sweden you can't. Mullvad is an unusual exception. Sweden is full cashless.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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How much do you pay per month? Never expect a real human tech expert if you only pay 10$/month for something. A human talking to you for 15minutes destroys their entire profit margin on your payments for years. Unless you hit a bug or something in their system, support is expensive.

That's the wrong way to look at it. They are pricing their product at whatever çost and people pay them that it works. Most people contact support if it doesn't work. Does not matter if it's 10 bucks or 1000.

Not sure if you ever worked in support, but the vast majority of cases it is users not understanding your product, not reading docs etc. Rarely it is actual bugs.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Pretty awesome move by the bunny team. I've checked it out and I really like the interface. But one thing I really like is the scripting ability to script DNS responses. Good choice opening this up in the product portfolio, even if you still need to use $1 a month in spend in order to support this.

That being said, their monitoring is a little light. I'm the founder at DNS Spy and having an external tool that can monitor your DNS service as well as identify problems when it comes to your DNS record configurations plus additional security checks and phishing domain detection.

Take a look at our write up about Bunny's move. Congrats to the team.

https://dnsspy.io/blog/bunny-dns-free-review-monitoring

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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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…

I had my vm's price increase by around 30% percent as well but they did communicate it and the reason for it being the global ram prices going up. Even then I think hetzner is pretty good, not a lot of good cloud providers keep the port 25 open.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.

As I understand it, it is $1/month minimum spend. Big difference between a one-time cost vs. a recurring cost. No matter how small.

Yes, but recurring spend helps keep the business sustainable. No matter how small

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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

If you want very small servers: either get a 7$/yr vps or (upcloud if all you want is 1gb ram/1core esq server for very lightweight purposes) The thing after Hetzner's price increase is that there isn't one size fits all anymore and I guess it might not impact people like me who knows in my opinion, many providers but in this situation its a net loss for many who might be paying higher prices. So here is my small lis…

I don't really like xhost - I prefer HammerVM for my hosting as they're a UK company but provide hosting in secure locations like Sweden and are not compliant with DMCA.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.

You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.

You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.

You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.

I just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.
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