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We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by __jonas »

jaffa2 wrote: post #4

So is this just a dns service? I can use their servers to service dns requests? The main webpage unfortunately has a lot of marketing speak that says a lot but doesnt really tell me what it is. Quote “ At bunny.net, our mission has always been ambitious but focused: help make the internet hop faster. To do that, we’ve built a massive global network spanning 119 locations and counting. Today, this network powers over…

You were looking at the website of Bunny, which is a company that offers primarily a CDN service, as well as other related things like compute hosting, object storage, DNS etc.

It's comparable to Cloudflare, if you're familiar with that, though Bunny is based in the EU instead of US.

This post is about their scriptable DNS service, which used to be paid and is now free.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by sc6782682 »

tao_oat wrote: post #12

I'm using Bunny DNS and it's been mostly unremarkable (which is a very good thing for a DNS provider)! The only annoyance is that their domain import auto-detects existing records, but it seems to miss a lot of them so you end up manually copying a lot of things over anyway.

I'm a BunnyDNS user and wanted to share a warning - the import from a zone file can drop records silently, and the export will fail to export some of your records. I reported bugs some months ago, they replied they've fixed some but it's still a problem.

Spirit: ensure you keep a good copy of your zone files (bind format), their import / export has issues (it also doesn't include SOA or NS records). I spent time (before the recent fixes) manually validating records.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kenanfyi »

khurs wrote: post #14
KingOfCoders wrote: post #2

I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).

how do you pay nothing? As CDN isn't free?

Correct. In Bunny you have a $1/month minimum cost. I guess that's so low for them, that it's kinda nothing.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by trick-or-treat »

khurs wrote: post #25
thepasch wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

something something are the product

Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good…

Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kenanfyi »

It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc.

I deploy my website using their API. So on every push, GitHub Actions builds it and copies the dist/ to Bunny and purges the cache afterwards. Everything has been working perfectly. I can only recommend. It's also quite easy if you don't know about the modern way of doing things and just want to use an FTP to put your website online. Especially attractive for IndieWeb folks.

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