The person behind the managed Ghost host I use switched to BunnyCDN for non-geopolitical reasons: https://www.magicpages.co/blog/setting-up-bunnycdn-with-ghos...
Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Though that makes little sense in the context of a CDN. I think Bunny uses US providers like Zenlayer for their egress there, so they’re just a middle man in my understanding. I don’t think there’s any EU provider that runs their own CDN hardware infrastructure in the US.
The US has started a war with many of its allies, including Europe. Obviously that means European users will be looking to remove hostile actors from its supply chain.
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#43I’m moving a lot the services I use as well. Trump is the best thing to ever happen to the EU tech scene.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and yes. But still good to know if someone pick a service with this intention: "I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare."
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
Haven't we learned that in the security and privacy domains that maxim requires its inversion? Especially with the passing of time! "Don't let temporary adequacy undermine lasting protection."
Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
#45Context for comment readers. Author switched as was looking for a non-US provider
Though that makes little sense in the context of a CDN. I think Bunny uses US providers like Zenlayer for their egress there, so they’re just a middle man in my understanding. I don’t think there’s any EU provider that runs their own CDN hardware infrastructure in the US.
That said, if your audience is primarily in the EU or you just really want to keep your TLS termination on EU jurisdiction then you can configure a Bunny pull zone to route all traffic to their EU-based servers regardless of the origin.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a long-standing dispute between Cloudflare and Germany's biggest ISP, Telekom, which results in terrible peering for Cloudflare free traffic for Telekom customers here. Sites on the Cloudflare Pro plan are not affected by this somehow. If the author is a Telekom customer, then they would absolutely see 100ms+ improvements.
DTAG is just terrible. Having a whitelist of allowed mail providers they deal with? Check. Abusing peering to squeeze more cash? Check. Advocating for censorship on the Internet? Check.
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#47What's the underlying stack? Fastly uses a version of Varnish underneath.
Bunny is based on nginx
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience bunny has lower latency than cloudflare. I can confirm.
Hundreds of milliseconds though? Seems highly doubtful, Cloudflare has latency in the range of 10-20 ms for most metropolitan areas, that they would that ten times that much for returning a blog post seems unlikely unless caching or other things are misconfigured.
Cloudflare routes most Arabian traffic through US or Europe first.
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#49For website hosting, it's okay but not great. We encountered issues when we tried to cache a lot of images. Their CDN storage seems really low compared to Cloudflare and Cloudfront. It results in a really bad hit ratio the moment we try to deliver a lot of images.
Can you provide more quantitative info?
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#50No way we move to a worse CDN only because some don't like Trump.
What makes it worse? In my experience it is a better CDN than Cloudflare (other than that it cost money and CF can be free and that is lacks websocket support). WAF seems a bit better at CF (but not sure the app should rely on a cloud WAF for security).