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Re: Bunny Database

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Post by victorbjorklund »

Daegalus wrote: post #26
cobertos wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, how? Did you have to modify your site a lot to do switch? I tried to test it out as a CDN replacement for Cloudflare but the workflow was a lot different. Instead of just using DNS to put it in front of another website and proxy the requests (the "orange cloud" button), I had to upload all the assets to Bunny and then rewrite the URLs in my app. Was kind of a pain

I have been using them for over a year. THey have the same flow as Cloudflare, point domain to thier CDN, set CDN Pull Zone to target your server. I havent had to do anything. They even support websockets. Why they cant do is the TUnnel stuff, or at least fake it. I have ipv6 servers, and I can't have the IPv4 Bunny traffic go to the ipv6 only sources.

Amazing. I had not noticed they support websockets now. That was always what I missed from CF.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by no_wizard »

arielcostas wrote: post #40
grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

It's not about it being hard, it's about delegating. Many companies are a bit less sensitive to pricing and would rather pay monthly for someone else to keep their database up, rather than spending engineering hours on setting up a database, tuning it, updating it, checking its backups, monitoring it and making it scale if needed. Sure, any regular SME can just install Postgres or MySQL without even setting much up e…

On the pricing bit, I have to say edge driven SQLite/ libsql driven solutions (this is a lot of them) can be a mixed bag.

Cloudflare, Fly.io litestream offerings and Turso are pretty reasonably priced, given the global coverage.

AWS with Aurora is more expensive for sure and isn’t edge located if I recall correctly, so you don’t get near instant propagation of changes on the edge

The bigger thing for me is how much control you have. So far with these edge database providers you don’t have a ton of say in how things are structured. To use them optimally, I have found it works best if you are doing database-per-tenant (or customer) scenarios or using it as a read / write cache that gets exfiltrated asynchronously.

And that is where I believe the real cost factors come into play is the flexibility

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by gordonhart »

mchusma wrote: post #28

I have used multiple s3 and cdn replacements, and bunny is my favorite. Excited to see a database product in the mix.

Same, it's nice to use a no-BS CDN for personal projects (e.g. https://atlasof.space/). Their pricing is good and I actually appreciate that they have no free tier so that there's no "oh shit" moment when you suddenly exceed it and owe real $$$ (looking at you, Netlify). I probably won't use their database feature but I'll for sure keep using their CDN if they can keep things as straightforward as they currently are.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by lateforwork »

grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?

It is not. You can provision a free Postgres instance with a single click: https://neon.new/

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by deepsun »

Reminds me of how we got scarred by "parse.com" -- it was also a promising database, and our customer insisted on it, but after lengthy development and just before our project release turned out that they are shutting down and noone works on it anymore. Like literally their support said "uhm sorry folks, we're all hired by Facebook, no one is working on parse.com anymore".

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by jonathanstrange »

lateforwork wrote: post #76
grugdev42 wrote: post #34

Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the box Even a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash) There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available i…

> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? It is not. You can provision a free Postgres instance with a single click: https://neon.new/

Yes, but there is nothing about pricing on this page. That doesn't make sense to me.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by iainmerrick »

osener wrote: post #23
pier25 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do have the CDN proxy too. Not sure when it was implemented though. It's a similar process to Cloudflare. Point the NS to them and enable the proxy for a domain or subdomain.

When I tried it last year, their edge compute infra was just not there yet. It could not do any meaningful server-side rendering because of code size, compute and JS standard constraints. Has this situation changed?

Depending on your precise requirements, I think it might have changed.

I've been trying out Bunny recently and it looks like a very viable replacement for most things I currently do with Cloudflare. This new database fills one of the major gaps.

Their edge scripting is based on Deno, and I think is pretty comparable to e.g. Vercel. They also have "magic containers", comparable to AWS ECS but (I think) much more convenient. It sounds from the docs like they run containers close to the edge, but I don't know if it's comparable to e.g. Lambda@Edge.

Re: Bunny Database

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Post by lateforwork »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #78
lateforwork wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? It is not. You can provision a free Postgres instance with a single click: https://neon.new/

Yes, but there is nothing about pricing on this page. That doesn't make sense to me.

Neon is from Databricks. Here's their pricing page: https://neon.com/pricing
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