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Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by kolp » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

Might be worth adding that Bunny offers DNS services as well.

I've started switching a few sites from Cloudflare to Bunny and the experience has been great so far. Bunny offers custom name servers as well, so if you can setup glue records with your domain registrar, it's easy enough to have custom nameservers, DNS and CDN hosted with Bunny. Cheap as chips and great performance so far.

I'm looking for a decent alternative to ReCaptcha or Turnstile but haven't found one yet that has easy integration (form builders etc.)

My move away from US providers isn't in protest - it's just risk avoidance. The unpredictable nature of the current administration reduces the attractiveness of using US based providers.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by 0x073 » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 1:12 PM UTC

ta1243 wrote: post #54

rolandog wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

Not really. Defence in depth is an example. If things were perfect you only need 1 layer of security. Things aren't perfect, that doesn't mean we should just give up and have no security, we have multiple layers of good security as while it's not perfect, it's better than nothing.

And if we don't talk about things that aren't perfect, there will never be a improvement.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by MrJohz » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

MrJohz wrote: post #56

fspoettel wrote: post #19

Earlier 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.

Hi, author here, that could absolutely be the case for me. I'll add a note about that when I next get to a computer.

And, looking again, the issue seems to no longer be there, and both CDNs produce results that are within a few tens of milliseconds from each other.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by iJohnDoe » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

arnorhs wrote: post #23

MortyWaves wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was surprised by that too: typically I’ve only seen such high latency on Netlify based sites which exclusively uses aws-east for the whole world.

This is not accurate. I do not know the details but netlify served things from a CDN by default if you set things up correctly with a CNAME entry in your DNS record. People often misconfigure things by pointing their domain to netlify's IP with an A entry, but this is a user problem, not a netlify problem. I'm sure their builds/functions run in a single region but not static files

Based on my limited knowledge, you have to point your root domain (e.g. example.com) to their IP address because it’s an A record.

For the a CNAME record (e.g. wwww) it can be pointed to their CDN.

I think if you use Netlify DNS for your domain, then you can point A records to their CDN because it’s an alias at that point. Like, A record aliases on AWS Route53.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by waltercool » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

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Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by jorams » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

mxschumacher wrote: post #60

jonathanlydall wrote: post #51

As it happens, just yesterday I began the process of switching from Azure Front Door (Azure's CDN offering) to CloudFlare and found that process significantly more painful than I expected. The first annoyance is that CloudFlare requires that you use their DNS servers, seems unnecessary to someone who isn't worried about being DDoS'ed, but okay, fine, I'll move one of my secondary domains (a .net) over to them. I expo…

You don't have to use cloudflare's dns to make use of the proxy (CDN, waf, ddos protection etc) see https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...

Note that in the questions at the bottom it says the following:

> If you are on a Free or Pro plan, full setup is the only one available. This is the recommended and most common option.

That means to use this partial setup you need to be on at least the Business plan, which is $200/month when billed anually ($250 monthly).

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by o_m » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

noobahoi wrote: post #33

No way we move to a worse CDN only because some don't like Trump.

It's not about not liking Trump. The fear is that the trade war against Europe might make it so expensive everyone has to switch to a non-American service. This is a way to be prepared for that. There is also the fear if USA goes to an actual war against Europe, then it is not safe to use any american technology that phones home.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by rolandog » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

0x073 wrote: post #62

ta1243 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Defence in depth is an example. If things were perfect you only need 1 layer of security. Things aren't perfect, that doesn't mean we should just give up and have no security, we have multiple layers of good security as while it's not perfect, it's better than nothing.

And if we don't talk about things that aren't perfect, there will never be a improvement.

Right. I think we're all in agreement about the end goal,... The "how we get there" is another story.

I'm partial to aiming for perfection — when there's time for it — after having been the person paying down the tech debt across different domains (i.e. untangle spaghetti code to unravel subtle logic errors, fix them, and write down documentation).

But I agree that sometimes you just need to ship a workable solution ASAP... I am of the opinion that that should be an exception, and that it isn't a sustainable modus operandi.

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by youngtaff » Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 6:48 PM UTC

throwaway63467 wrote: post #30

youngtaff wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It makes fine sense… It means all the data captured in the EU is governed by EU data protection / ePrivacy etc regulations and the CLOUD Act doesn’t apply Whereas a US CDN vendor is captured by requirements the CLOUD Act and so there’s no guarantee of privacy for EU site visitors

Yeah but it’s like using a EU vendor that hosts on AWS, if the US government wants the data they’ll just subpoena AWS instead of the EU provider. I get that it’s better but anything hosted on US soil is under jurisdiction of the US government regardless of whether it’s ultimately owned by a EU vendor.

An EU vendor with their own hardware or using an EU provider underneath then it’s very different to an EU provider using AWS underneath

Re: Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

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Post by dezmou » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 12:22 AM UTC

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