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Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by jeremyjh »

heybales wrote: post #53
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes Hetzner is still vastly cheaper option but there are better options now compared to hetzner and the issue is the way that they handled the pricing. Its just simply unsustainable and burns a lot of trust/good will if you increase your prices 3x in such a short period of time Trust me when I say this but Hetzner really belonged in its category previously. I had scoured almost everything and nothing could provide th…

Are you a Hetzner customer? I'm a Hetzner customer, and my prices did not increase by 3x (it was more like 1.25x) and the price increase was communicated months in advance and several times. I am running stuff on their older infra, so maybe they handled it differently? When hardwares price go up at least 4x for storage and ram, I don't see how you can avoid price increases and they are still one of the cheaper/cheape…

It depends on the product.

I have two CCX13, which were small (2CPU, 8GB RAM) dedicated compute VMs in Ashburn. Those are 16.99 EUR / month on my account, but for me to add another would now cost 43.99 EUR.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by kassner »

Trollmann wrote: post #6
postepowanieadm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you managed to turn everything off? I had been playing with magic containers, turned everything off and then discovered every month I was charged 1usd + vat for nothing. A bit annoying.

IIUC this is by design. If you have an account with them you will pay at least $1/month. The only way to get rid of this is to delete the account.

TBF you can keep the account dormant if you delete all the resources. I have like $3 in balance left for over a year now.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by 1dom »

Havoc wrote: post #67
dizhn wrote: post #5

It sounds like they made it free for customers for up to 500 domains. It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? >So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely. > Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise pla…

The one dollar thing isn’t as bad in practice as it sounds since it covers everything. Basically invoice minimum across everything so if you’re using the platform in any meaningful way it’s a non issue

The 1 dollar thing, I think, looks exceptionally bad because it shows that what Bunny says can't be taken at face value.

The fact is we're here because they posted a blog talking about how great they are making DNS free "because a faster internet won’t build itself".

But now I've just learnt from comments on HN that Bunny DNS isn't free.

They've lost my trust before they even had it.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by laszlojamf »

1dom wrote: post #79
Lucasoato wrote: post #17

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'm not choosing BunnyNet because it's european, I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service. That sounds like a GPT trope, and seems a slightly weird thing to say: the only reason I thought you might be choosing it because it was European was because your entire comment talked about how you were looking for EU alternatives, and how Bunny is better than other European alternatives.…

this might be a case of AI feedback, where people have been exposed to so much AI writing that they are starting to write like AI themselves.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by Bender »

Free secondary or are people supposed to make them primary and manage their DNS through Bunny? If primary that is the same sales technique Cloudflare used. It works, once one's DNS is managed there enabling CDN features is just clicking buttons.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by whiterock »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #73
heybales wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you a Hetzner customer? I'm a Hetzner customer, and my prices did not increase by 3x (it was more like 1.25x) and the price increase was communicated months in advance and several times. I am running stuff on their older infra, so maybe they handled it differently? When hardwares price go up at least 4x for storage and ram, I don't see how you can avoid price increases and they are still one of the cheaper/cheape…

My frugality had made me found cheaper options than Hetzner (at the cost of my sanity /jk) But, hetzner was a really solid deal especially for larger specs, literally nothing could compete with it as I used to make literal lists of providers in my head that can compete against Hetzner/ovhcloud and there were none . They were so good, too good in fact and I had actually felt like they were so giant that they would be…

mind sharing what you found in your search losing your sanity? :D

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by 1dom »

The mismatch between how great Bunny is giving away free DNS, and the actual reality that I can't open an account and get free DNS from them is jarring and verging on dishonest.

Saying stuff is free when it's not in the small print feels like a distinctly American Tech thing to do, which is an odd angle for a company trying to be an EU alternative to cloudflare.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by 1dom »

laszlojamf wrote: post #84
1dom wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not choosing BunnyNet because it's european, I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service. That sounds like a GPT trope, and seems a slightly weird thing to say: the only reason I thought you might be choosing it because it was European was because your entire comment talked about how you were looking for EU alternatives, and how Bunny is better than other European alternatives.…

this might be a case of AI feedback, where people have been exposed to so much AI writing that they are starting to write like AI themselves.

I agree! It might even be an issue on my side, where I'm exposed to AI generated stuff that often that everything starts looking like a trope when it's not.

Either way, I've seen more than enough in this comment section to make me want to avoid bunny for now anyway.

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by fragmede »

1dom wrote: post #79
Lucasoato wrote: post #17

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'm not choosing BunnyNet because it's european, I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service. That sounds like a GPT trope, and seems a slightly weird thing to say: the only reason I thought you might be choosing it because it was European was because your entire comment talked about how you were looking for EU alternatives, and how Bunny is better than other European alternatives.…

This is how the bourgeoisie win. By getting the intellectuals to fight amongst themselves, not about the ideas in the text that might threaten them, but by an offkilter assessment of the idea's provenance. Come on. Maybe We could argue about immigrants instead?

Re: We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Post by hk__2 »

1dom wrote: post #79
Lucasoato wrote: post #17

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'm not choosing BunnyNet because it's european, I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service. That sounds like a GPT trope, and seems a slightly weird thing to say: the only reason I thought you might be choosing it because it was European was because your entire comment talked about how you were looking for EU alternatives, and how Bunny is better than other European alternatives.…

> That sounds like a GPT trope

It sounds natural to me. Remember that most people here are non-native speakers, including OP.

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