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We’re making Bunny DNS free

927 points by dabinat 4mo ago

KingOfCoders 4mo ago
I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).
- khurs 4mo ago
  how do you pay nothing? As CDN isn't free?
  - kenanfyi 4mo ago
    Correct. In Bunny you have a $1/month minimum cost. I guess that's so low for them, that it's kinda nothing.
- postepowanieadm 4mo ago
  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.
  - Trollmann 4mo ago
    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.
    - kassner 4mo ago
      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.
  - phlsa 4mo ago
    There seems to be a $1 minimum charge on all accounts, regardless of whether or not you use them[1] [1] https://bunny.net/pricing/#:~:text=%241%20monthly%20minimum https://bunny.net/pricing/#:~:text=%241%20monthly%20minimum
    - KingOfCoders 4mo ago
      Yes, that is what I pay ("basically nothing")
    - thisislife2 4mo ago
      So "free DNS hosting" is misleading marketing? (I signed up but wasn't asked for credit card info).
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  - LoganDark 4mo ago
    From TFA: > As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend
jaffa2 4mo ago
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 1.5 million websites and consistently delivers some of the fastest content delivery around the globe. But while deploying thousands of servers globally is an impressive feat on its own, the hardware itself does not explain how bunny.net is able to deliver such an impressive level of performance. The real secret hides under the hood, embedded in the routing engine that directs every request, every user, and sends traffic exactly where it needs to go. That engine is Bunny DNS” Ok… so what is it? Router? Dns? Software? Service? Upon reading again that para actually sounds a bit like AI slop, could explain it.
- farfatched 4mo ago
  Its an authoritative DNS service, so it can host your domains. Compare with a recursive resolver, like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, which you can use to resolve domains. What's nice about Bunny DNS is that they have authoritative nameservers ~everywhere, so resolving is quick everywhere. But I think in practice this isn't that useful, since if a domain is moderately used, its DNS records will be cached ~everywhere in anycasted recursive resolvers.
  - x13 4mo ago
    don't compare it to a public resolver like 1.1.1.1. It's authoritative name servers for your domain. Compare it to AWS Route 53, Akamai Edge DNS, IBM NS1.
    - farfatched 4mo ago
      I raised the comparison to distinguish between authoritative and recursive resolvers, since the parent's question was ambiguous: "So is this just a dns service?".
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dizhn 4mo ago
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 plans. (Yes, that includes smart records and health monitoring too.) >As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges. Oh..kayy.
- KingOfCoders 4mo ago
  You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.
  - khurs 4mo ago
    Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)
    - thepasch 4mo ago
      something something are the product
      - rozenmd 4mo ago
        Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
        bcye 4mo ago
        Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
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tao_oat 4mo ago
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.
- farfatched 4mo ago
  In their defence, nobody can implement auto-detecting domains well, because there's no way to efficiently enumerate DNS records. (Excluding NSEC-style enumeration, which is not always available.)
  - Chu4eeno 4mo ago
    I feel like I'm missing something, AXFR?
    - meeb 4mo ago
      Almost no mainstream existing provider you’re migrating from would support AXFR from Bunny’s servers. But yes, AXFR would be the ideal solution in a perfect world.
      - Chu4eeno 4mo ago
        iirc at least some providers let you whitelist AXFR for migrating away from them, but seems like it is usually only if you pay enough (i. e. restricted to enterprise plans). Since it's much rarer than I thought, I guess it makes sense bunny haven't implemented support for ingesting with AXFR.
    - x13 4mo ago
      AXFR is not supported by AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, Azure, Rackspace, Hetzner, Bunny, Alibaba Cloud DNS, No-IP, nor Tencent. It is supported by Akamai Edge DNS, Oracle Cloud, enterprise Cloudflare accounts, IBM NS1 Connect, ClouDNS, CloudFloorDNS, and DNS Made Easy.
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Lucasoato 4mo ago
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 example: how can you imagine being competitive with US cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) by raising the prices so much, in such a short time, with so little previous communication to your customers? BunnyNet on the other hand is being competitive and this move is in the right direction. Of course their free tier is not comparable to Cloudflare (they are two different companies, with different profiles in terms of debt, cash in hand and so on), but it doesn't need to be for small projects. 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.
- scandox 4mo ago
  Well that's a strange way of expressing competitiveness when Hetzner is still vastly cheaper than those 3 cloud providers, despite those cost increases.
  - Imustaskforhelp 4mo ago
    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 the scale at price Hetzner did back then but now I would say that its simply not true anymore and that there might be better options out there for what its worth. I am really sad for Hetzner as I really enjoyed them and always wanted to build on top of them but looks like all good things come to an end :-(
    - piva00 4mo ago
      What is comparable to Hetzner in price/scale/features?
khurs 4mo ago
Just looked at their website, they don't do many loss leaders as others, for example others offer free static site hosting. But they are a private company with only one small $6m funding round back in 2022, so I think they are more focused on building organically and not chasing investor funded growth. Good luck to Bunny!
- sparkling 4mo ago
  They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.
  - ahmednazir 4mo ago
    You can host static sites with no cost in multiple provider like cloudflare Page, Github Page etc.
    - frail_figure 4mo ago
      Bunny is EU-based afaik, the ones you mention are not.
    - arcanemachiner 4mo ago
      I would spend a dollar I'd it meant avoiding both of those companies.
  - hosteur 4mo ago
    As I understand it, it is $1/month minimum spend. Big difference between a one-time cost vs. a recurring cost. No matter how small.
    - MajorLettuce 4mo ago
      Yes, but recurring spend helps keep the business sustainable. No matter how small
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JdeBP 4mo ago
For the people asking what kind of DNS service this is, content or proxy: You have to look 'Bunny DNS' up in the products menu and from there follow the hyperlink to the doco. * https://docs.bunny.net/dns https://docs.bunny.net/dns So it's content DNS service; with server-side resource record shuffling; and with JavaScript, and badly written examples that don't check the question type, just to make it weird.
bcye 4mo ago
Very nice and a great service. I wish there API Keys were scoped however so setting up continuous deployments doesn't risk your, say, MX records getting changed if the key is leaked. And it would be very awesome if they would support IPv6-only origins for the CDN.
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- joe-at-bunny 4mo ago
  Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing discovery on API key scopes at the moment, we don't yet have a public ETA for this but rest assured it's being worked on! Regarding IPv6-only origin support, We brought this in just last week! We now support IPv6-only addresses direct as an origin, as a hostname, as well as dual stack hostname resolution. Best, Joe
  - is_true 4mo ago
    Hello Joe. How does the USD1 minimum works? Say I have setup a pull zone and i don't use it for over a month, I get charged anyway? Thanks.
    - tpetry 4mo ago
      Yes. You‘re getting charged. But a dollar for your entire bunny account (not for every service or domain) is not that much to ask for.
      - einsteinx2 4mo ago
        When the comparison is literally every other cloud provider who all charge by usage only, then anything more than $0.00 is in my opinion too much to ask for. I’ve been using cloud services in one way or another from different providers (including EU based like Hetzner) and never seen this before. It’s always been pay for what you use and nothing more, which is kind of the whole pitch of cloud services.
jeremyjh 4mo ago
Their website loads really fast. Its sad that this is remarkable, but it really is.
- guerrilla 4mo ago
  Damn, you're right. Ugh, everything else is truly molasses.
- freakynit 4mo ago
  Damn!! I just tried a few links from navbar... all loaded in an instant like they have already been cached, even though they were not (since I use firefox in full private mode, and haven't visited their site in like months before today).
mistic92 4mo ago
Interesting, but I have too much stuff configured in Cloudflare :<
- unsungNovelty 4mo ago
  All the more reason to use this? :)
Lapsa 4mo ago
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ramon156 4mo ago
I'm pretty bummed I never got hired at BunnyNet. Seems like such a cool company to work for, and I ticked their boxes in the application
kenanfyi 4mo ago
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.
hoechst 4mo ago
a free dns service? wow that's insane.
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chaz6 4mo ago
This is good news! For anybody wondering, there is a terraform provider available. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/BunnyWay/bunnynet/latest/docs https://registry.terraform.io/providers/BunnyWay/bunnynet/la...
wouldbecouldbe 4mo ago
Bunny.net is awesome!
anonzzzies 4mo ago
I do not mind paying for everything as long as there is good ddos protection as getting charged for stuff I cannot help is an immediate cancel and also I won’t pay, come get me.
sreekanth850 4mo ago
Biggest feature is dns loadbalancing.
tonyhart7 4mo ago
more competition is a good thing, always welcome for alternative
decide1000 4mo ago
Finally! Now it becomes economic for us to make the move! Goodbye CloudFlare!
injidup 4mo ago
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- nottorp 4mo ago
  Too bad, because it basically said they only use necessary cookies. I suppose you'd have complained if there were no cookie banner as well? I mean, that cookie popup saying there's no need for a cookie popup is probably there because someone complained there's no cookie popup...
  - injidup 4mo ago
    The "Appreciate it" / "cool carry on" Is exactly the sort of confusing non choice options cookie banners give. Along the lines of "Accept all" / "more information" Then I'll retract my claim but it is bad UX to make a popup on the landing page that looks like an evil cookie banner.
    - nottorp 4mo ago
      I must agree the text on the buttons confused me too, but considering the article title and the first few comments I stopped and read the pop-up text. I’m in the habit of going interesting title -> skim a few comments -> then decide whether I should click on the article
- bux93 4mo ago
  Agreed. Their privacy page even says they'll remove data if you withdraw consent, but they don't ask for consent. They also don't mention any you could object to data processing, claiming that "Processing is necessary to perform a contract with the data subject and to take steps toward the conclusion of a business relationship." which is a very contorted interpretation; taking steps towards the conclusion is about making quotes and such. It makes me sour on their claims "Keep your data private, compliant, and fully in the EU. As a privacy-first European company, we help you stay aligned with GDPR. No surprises. Full transparency."
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AussieWog93 4mo ago
Just responding to Lapsa here - yes, you're shadowbanned. I looked into your post history and it looks like you were banned after making posts on unrelated threads about microwave transmissions causing auitory hallucinations. Dang directly said to you that he'd banned your account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429#48176202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429#48176202 All posts since then have come up dead, except for one about Factorio for some reason. On a side note, Lapsa, you can test your theory about microwave transmissions fairly easily by simply going inside of a faraday cage. Simplest method I can think of is to go to the hardware/furniture store and stand in a metal storage cabinet. If you can still hear the voices, then it means they're not being transmitted from external microwaves - a microwave capable of causing the Frey Effect can't penetrate thicker metal like that unless there are gaps of ~1cm or more. If others could please downvote this comment so that it goes to the bottom and he can see it, that would be greatly appreciated!
9294 4mo ago
Kudos to Bunny.net! I'm really waiting for a streamlined static website hosting experience to move everything to Bunny. At the moment, Cloudflare Pages is still much more straightforward with one CLI command to deploy a website. Also, we are using Bunny containers with our global API gateway with 16 worldwide locations and it is really crazy - the cost is $3.60/mo (Go backend + Bunny billing based on resource utilization, not provisioning). With a relatively small usage of 20k API requests/mo, it's still stupidly cheap.
- bcye 4mo ago
  I hope this might be of use to you, it's exactly that, one-command deployments. :) It's still early, but I'm using it across my deployments and it works pretty flawlessly. https://tangled.org/bruceroettgers.eu/bunnyup https://tangled.org/bruceroettgers.eu/bunnyup
  - 9294 4mo ago
    nice, I will check it out!
Bender 4mo ago
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.
- eikenberry 4mo ago
  I've dug into this a bit and I'd say the answer is no, they do not support being used as a secondary.
1dom 4mo ago
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.
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- rvz 4mo ago
  Many people will realize this soon. Especially if private equity gets their hands on buying Bunny.net.
zazuke 4mo ago
Amazing, thanks for doing that. I just moved all my websites to Bunny CDN a couple of months ago, and I couldn't be happier. Great product, great website and interface.
pbronez 4mo ago
“As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.” This is smart. Ensures you have valid payment information, which implies a financial institution is running KYC on your customer. That reduces fraud and abuse while also reducing friction for real users to increase their spend within your ecosystem when a new product catches their eye.
loorke 4mo ago
They use .NET. Considering this choice, I doubt they will ever be as good as Cloudflare
YBuli 4mo ago
Nice thank you so much!
dzonga 4mo ago
seems both Bunny & Cloudflare - both have a SQLite product - has anyone used the sqlite products ? & what are your thoughts & opinions
Gelob 4mo ago
so its authoritative dns and not free dns resolution like 1.1.1.1
Sibexico 4mo ago
Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.
- sebiw 4mo ago
  Domain Registrars usually have shitty, subpar DNS eg. without Anycast or DNSSEC.
  - savikko 4mo ago
    If i have understood correctly, Anycast is not feature of DNS but a feature of BGP. Otherwise, that is my observation also.
    - celsoazevedo 4mo ago
      I believe they're referring to the DNS servers. The closer they are to the user, the faster a DNS resolution happens. A good provider will have different locations across the world, and users connect to the nearest datacentre. The free DNS some domain registrars offer is, sometimes, hosted at one single location. If the server is in the US and the user is in Europe, you're adding 80-150ms to requests. If they use "anycast" servers, the user could connect to a server 1-20ms away.
- ralish 4mo ago
  Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head: - Akamai DNS - AWS Route 53 - Azure DNS - Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan) - Google Cloud DNS And many, many others. And I note the site you posted this comment on is using Route 53, so probably paid as I doubt their query volume would be in the free tier. Paying for DNS for personal/hobby stuff is probably pretty uncommon, because like you say, most domain registrars will offer it for free. But commercial websites often will, particularly larger ones with serious traffic.
- matja 4mo ago
  Amazon Route 53 is $0.40 per million DNS queries - which would terrify me if I used it, considering a typical 10Gbit server connection hosted at a unscrupulous ASN with no egress IP filtering is capable of sending a million DNS requests per second from random spoofed IP addresses.
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nubinetwork 4mo ago
> Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries I've owned domains for ~20 years... I'm okay for paying for the domain, I'm okay with some of that money being used to maintain the DNS servers... I've never had a company charge for queries. Why would they do that?
- spiderfarmer 4mo ago
  GeoDNS often isn't free.
- mikkei 4mo ago
  Well, AWS is an example of provide who does charges for it, starting at $0.4/million queries...
- lokar 4mo ago
  Serving static records with reasonable TTLs (so you get caching) is pretty much always free. Dynamic, geo routed, load balanced low TTL queries tend to have a fee.
thrownaway561 4mo ago
how do they compare to cloudflare? It would be nice to see a comparison chart
tzury 4mo ago
200,000,000,000÷30÷24÷60÷60÷119 648 queries/second/location. Obviously not all locations are equal and not all seconds or minutes of the day are. Indeed an impressive scale.
hyperionultra 4mo ago
Not entirely free. Bunny account it-self costs 12$/year.
fredrickleo 4mo ago
I read this headline as "DNS free" and was intrigued, like they would be distributing hosts files or something.
Diti 4mo ago
I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other products. The day Bunny starts treating all their products evenly (and listen to requests asking to implement basic features) will be the day I will switch all my nonprofit communities to their services.
- KomoD 4mo ago
  > I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. If it's just some simple website, then LLM/crawlers probably won't get you anywhere near thousands of euros. The CDN costs $0.01 - $0.06 per GB ... You can limit some of their services, like the CDN (which is the most important one in my opinion): - Download speed limit - Requests per IP - Data transfer per IP - Max connections per IP And monthly bandwidth limit, which disables the zone if you reach x GB.
- kassner 4mo ago
  You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance. AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.
  - jedisct1 4mo ago
    Exactly! I once had some pretty serious DoS attack, but fortunately, I didn't had to pay more than what was pre-paid.
  - mhitza 4mo ago
    It's not purely prepaid otherwise I wouldn't be charged into negative (see my other comment in this thread).
teekert 4mo ago
This is nice, I have some nameservers pointing to Hetzner so I can use Caddy to do domain validation via API and get https (with dedicated domains) on private LANs. But the Hetzner API keys are horribly, uncomfortably over-scoped and I haven't found a way to reduce that. At least when I do DNS at bunny, a leaked key can't rent VMs on my CC. And I prefer EU infra (cloudflare works great though for this usecase). Who knows that my bunny account can grow into ;)
herodotus 4mo ago
I am seeing way to many "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." from Cloudfare these days. It strikes me that, if it has verified my client once, it should hold off at least for a day or so before putting me through that hoop again. How does Bunny DNS deal with bot protection?
- timpera 4mo ago
  I have the same experience, and I ended up removing Cloudflare from the websites I manage since there were too many complaints from users with shared connections or exotic browsers.
- mmarian 4mo ago
  Not sure if you're talking about different sites or same one. If different sites, it doesn't make much sense to add that feature because site owners would rarely (if ever) want it. If same site, blame again the site owner who has the ability to configure challenge cookie expiry.
- Chu4eeno 4mo ago
  Wasn't Privacy Pass supposed to fix this? Let the browser generate and store some PoW or something that it hands off to the site, so each site doesn't have to do the same thing. https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension seems kind of dead (a dependabot zombie). eta: I completely missed this two days ago: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-collaborates-with-leading-browsers-to-develop-a-privacy-first-protocol-for-the-global-internet/ https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl...
awill 4mo ago
I just signed up. The website (despite saying it's free here) has numerous banners of trials and free credits. Not quite what I was expecting from 'free'
- KomoD 4mo ago
  They offer more services than just DNS.. their DNS service is "free", their other services aren't.
willXare 4mo ago
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jcalabro 4mo ago
We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience! Team is great, service is great, price is great.
mmarian 4mo ago
Great news, but CDN doesn't have free tier like Cloudflare's unfortunately, so not an option for my projects ATM.
mrbluecoat 4mo ago
> We implemented DNSSEC with NSEC Black Lies That's pretty cool. Learned something new today. Best wishes in your new business model!
pixel_popping 4mo ago
Excellent commercial move!
xinayder 4mo ago
I wish they provided an alternative to Cloudflare WARP as well.
swordlucky666 4mo ago
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nabeards 4mo ago
I can finally automate our wildcard certs. Our current DNS host doesn’t have an API.
elashri 4mo ago
I think it is a step in the right direction for bunny to be a competitive for the people on hobby/self hosting. But I think that having a free tier for CDN is what makes cloudflare attractive (Among other things).
nashashmi 4mo ago
How would I quantitatively test which dns server is the fastest one available to me?
ah1508 4mo ago
I just discovered bunny.net thanks to this post. I'd be happy to move my static websites on bunny.net, but is it possible (like on cloudflare) to map requests to /foo to the foo.html file ? According to what I read on the documentation it is not a edge rule.
- dieselgate 4mo ago
  Pardon my ignorance but am curious what is an "edge rule"? Is it a tech-related term (i.e. edge case) or a figure of speech?
  - Chu4eeno 4mo ago
    "Edge" was the new "client", now it's everything outside your own servers, or at the border between your server and everyone else.
  - looperhacks 4mo ago
    See also: Edge Computing
thenews 4mo ago
really excited for bunny, i am sure things (dns import) would be fixed eventually
frodomaximusss 4mo ago
Is this faster than Cloudflare?
hnarn 4mo ago
The first few hundred words on that page does not explain why I should care about this, and amazingly neither does the comments here on HN.
- yoyohello13 4mo ago
  Top Comment > EU based alternative to Cloudflare
- nateb2022 4mo ago
  Curious if bunny.net offers any measurable DNS performance improvements over Cloudflare or vice versa.
  - HDBaseT 4mo ago
    Depends, Cloudflare likely still beats them on average. It is worth noting bunny.net doesn't provide a Public DNS Resolver, this isn't like 1.1.1.1.
- sysworld 4mo ago
  This is what I came to HN for too, usually it works well, but yeah not so clear in this one. I check the comments, if it looks interesting then I'll read the article.
moontear 4mo ago
Their claim is that they are European, but I see a US support hotline in the footer and all prices are in Dollar. Seems to be targeting the US market (which is smart), but I don't know whether the European angle wins there.
__MatrixMan__ 4mo ago
Faster name resolution is chasing a local maximum. The better path to improving the internet is to rely on DNS less and content addressing more, that way content stays accessible as long as somebody on your part of the network has it.
- lokar 4mo ago
  Something still has to locate the resource you want, and that will involve something equivalent to DNS.
  - __MatrixMan__ 4mo ago
    Sure but it's a different game if instead of finding the machine that has the data, it can find any machine that has the data. That machine might be elsewhere on your lan or elsewhere in your city.
    - lokar 4mo ago
      But that's not how DNS works. It does not find /the/ node that matches the host element of the resource. It finds a list of nodes (often a subset of eligible nodes).
johnathan101 4mo ago
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MadsRC 4mo ago
Amazing news! The one thing I wish they’d support is multiple zones and an RBAC system to grant certain users access to specific zones. If they’d offer that they’d be a serious contender to replace Cloudflare and AWS/GCP DNS
naikrovek 4mo ago
Wow they made something free that I’ve used for 30+ years and have never paid for in my life. Amazing, what an accomplishment! What Herculean effort it must have taken! What the hell am I missing here?
- dabinat 4mo ago
  A lot of providers have basic DNS for free but charge for more sophisticated uses like geo routing. AWS charges for every single thing: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/ I refuse to use Cloudflare for two reasons: 1) It’s free until it’s not and they don’t tell you where that limit is. 2) If something goes wrong you cannot contact anyone unless you have an enterprise agreement. Just paying them money is not enough to be able to speak to a person. I had serious issues with R2 and had no-one to contact. They have a Discord and you see people posting the same issues over and over again that never get fixed.
slickytail 4mo ago
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moontear 4mo ago
So what’s the functional difference to Cloudflare (free) DNS? Anything besides „this is European“ that makes me want to switch?
vanwal_j 4mo ago
What would be even nicer: - Make your privacy policy less shady so we're sure you're not sending data to Hyperscalers subject to Cloud Act - Support the Vary header so we can build a real, self hosted, european Vercel alternative
raggi 4mo ago
I have been fed up with DNSimple for a long time. Can any folks share positive experiences with Bunny?
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da768 4mo ago
Now we just need a EU based alternative to Let's Encrypt
- kassner 4mo ago
  It depends how much EU do you need. ZeroSSL is through HID Global, part of Assa Abloy, a Swedish public company. HID, however, is American according to Wikipedia. Caddy uses ZeroSSL by default. If you want only single host certificates, Actalis is Italian and issues free ones as well: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Actalis.com-CA https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Actalis.com-...
whh 4mo ago
Yay! I love Bunny DNS!
manytimesaway 4mo ago
On the other hand, I was using Bunny DNS free for years, and now I have to pay $1/month to use it. Need to migrate somewhere else.
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elpy1 4mo ago
Just switched over a domain to Bunny with ping-based latency routing successfully. Thanks! One small bit of feedback: HTTPS records were neither discovered nor imported during the zone import. I was able to manually create them but just a FYI.
tdondich 4mo ago
Pretty awesome move by the bunny team. I've checked it out and I really like the interface. But one thing I really like is the scripting ability to script DNS responses. Good choice opening this up in the product portfolio, even if you still need to use $1 a month in spend in order to support this. That being said, their monitoring is a little light. I'm the founder at DNS Spy and having an external tool that can monitor your DNS service as well as identify problems when it comes to your DNS record configurations plus additional security checks and phishing domain detection. Take a look at our write up about Bunny's move. Congrats to the team. https://dnsspy.io/blog/bunny-dns-free-review-monitoring https://dnsspy.io/blog/bunny-dns-free-review-monitoring
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KingOfCoders 4mo ago

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

khurs 4mo ago
how do you pay nothing? As CDN isn't free?
- kenanfyi 4mo ago
  Correct. In Bunny you have a $1/month minimum cost. I guess that's so low for them, that it's kinda nothing.
postepowanieadm 4mo ago
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.
- Trollmann 4mo ago
  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.
  - kassner 4mo ago
    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.
- phlsa 4mo ago
  There seems to be a $1 minimum charge on all accounts, regardless of whether or not you use them[1] [1] https://bunny.net/pricing/#:~:text=%241%20monthly%20minimum https://bunny.net/pricing/#:~:text=%241%20monthly%20minimum
  - KingOfCoders 4mo ago
    Yes, that is what I pay ("basically nothing")
  - thisislife2 4mo ago
    So "free DNS hosting" is misleading marketing? (I signed up but wasn't asked for credit card info).
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- LoganDark 4mo ago
  From TFA: > As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend

jaffa2 4mo ago

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 1.5 million websites and consistently delivers some of the fastest content delivery around the globe. But while deploying thousands of servers globally is an impressive feat on its own, the hardware itself does not explain how bunny.net is able to deliver such an impressive level of performance. The real secret hides under the hood, embedded in the routing engine that directs every request, every user, and sends traffic exactly where it needs to go. That engine is Bunny DNS” Ok… so what is it? Router? Dns? Software? Service? Upon reading again that para actually sounds a bit like AI slop, could explain it.

farfatched 4mo ago
Its an authoritative DNS service, so it can host your domains. Compare with a recursive resolver, like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, which you can use to resolve domains. What's nice about Bunny DNS is that they have authoritative nameservers ~everywhere, so resolving is quick everywhere. But I think in practice this isn't that useful, since if a domain is moderately used, its DNS records will be cached ~everywhere in anycasted recursive resolvers.
- x13 4mo ago
  don't compare it to a public resolver like 1.1.1.1. It's authoritative name servers for your domain. Compare it to AWS Route 53, Akamai Edge DNS, IBM NS1.
  - farfatched 4mo ago
    I raised the comparison to distinguish between authoritative and recursive resolvers, since the parent's question was ambiguous: "So is this just a dns service?".
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dizhn 4mo ago

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 plans. (Yes, that includes smart records and health monitoring too.) >As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges. Oh..kayy.

KingOfCoders 4mo ago
You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.
- khurs 4mo ago
  Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)
  - thepasch 4mo ago
    something something are the product
    - rozenmd 4mo ago
      Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
      - bcye 4mo ago
        Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
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tao_oat 4mo ago

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.

farfatched 4mo ago
In their defence, nobody can implement auto-detecting domains well, because there's no way to efficiently enumerate DNS records. (Excluding NSEC-style enumeration, which is not always available.)
- Chu4eeno 4mo ago
  I feel like I'm missing something, AXFR?
  - meeb 4mo ago
    Almost no mainstream existing provider you’re migrating from would support AXFR from Bunny’s servers. But yes, AXFR would be the ideal solution in a perfect world.
    - Chu4eeno 4mo ago
      iirc at least some providers let you whitelist AXFR for migrating away from them, but seems like it is usually only if you pay enough (i. e. restricted to enterprise plans). Since it's much rarer than I thought, I guess it makes sense bunny haven't implemented support for ingesting with AXFR.
  - x13 4mo ago
    AXFR is not supported by AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, Azure, Rackspace, Hetzner, Bunny, Alibaba Cloud DNS, No-IP, nor Tencent. It is supported by Akamai Edge DNS, Oracle Cloud, enterprise Cloudflare accounts, IBM NS1 Connect, ClouDNS, CloudFloorDNS, and DNS Made Easy.
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Lucasoato 4mo ago

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 example: how can you imagine being competitive with US cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) by raising the prices so much, in such a short time, with so little previous communication to your customers? BunnyNet on the other hand is being competitive and this move is in the right direction. Of course their free tier is not comparable to Cloudflare (they are two different companies, with different profiles in terms of debt, cash in hand and so on), but it doesn't need to be for small projects. 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.

scandox 4mo ago
Well that's a strange way of expressing competitiveness when Hetzner is still vastly cheaper than those 3 cloud providers, despite those cost increases.
- Imustaskforhelp 4mo ago
  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 the scale at price Hetzner did back then but now I would say that its simply not true anymore and that there might be better options out there for what its worth. I am really sad for Hetzner as I really enjoyed them and always wanted to build on top of them but looks like all good things come to an end :-(
  - piva00 4mo ago
    What is comparable to Hetzner in price/scale/features?

khurs 4mo ago

Just looked at their website, they don't do many loss leaders as others, for example others offer free static site hosting. But they are a private company with only one small $6m funding round back in 2022, so I think they are more focused on building organically and not chasing investor funded growth. Good luck to Bunny!

sparkling 4mo ago
They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.
- ahmednazir 4mo ago
  You can host static sites with no cost in multiple provider like cloudflare Page, Github Page etc.
  - frail_figure 4mo ago
    Bunny is EU-based afaik, the ones you mention are not.
  - arcanemachiner 4mo ago
    I would spend a dollar I'd it meant avoiding both of those companies.
- hosteur 4mo ago
  As I understand it, it is $1/month minimum spend. Big difference between a one-time cost vs. a recurring cost. No matter how small.
  - MajorLettuce 4mo ago
    Yes, but recurring spend helps keep the business sustainable. No matter how small
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JdeBP 4mo ago

For the people asking what kind of DNS service this is, content or proxy: You have to look 'Bunny DNS' up in the products menu and from there follow the hyperlink to the doco. * https://docs.bunny.net/dns https://docs.bunny.net/dns So it's content DNS service; with server-side resource record shuffling; and with JavaScript, and badly written examples that don't check the question type, just to make it weird.

bcye 4mo ago

Very nice and a great service. I wish there API Keys were scoped however so setting up continuous deployments doesn't risk your, say, MX records getting changed if the key is leaked. And it would be very awesome if they would support IPv6-only origins for the CDN.

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joe-at-bunny 4mo ago
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We're doing discovery on API key scopes at the moment, we don't yet have a public ETA for this but rest assured it's being worked on! Regarding IPv6-only origin support, We brought this in just last week! We now support IPv6-only addresses direct as an origin, as a hostname, as well as dual stack hostname resolution. Best, Joe
- is_true 4mo ago
  Hello Joe. How does the USD1 minimum works? Say I have setup a pull zone and i don't use it for over a month, I get charged anyway? Thanks.
  - tpetry 4mo ago
    Yes. You‘re getting charged. But a dollar for your entire bunny account (not for every service or domain) is not that much to ask for.
    - einsteinx2 4mo ago
      When the comparison is literally every other cloud provider who all charge by usage only, then anything more than $0.00 is in my opinion too much to ask for. I’ve been using cloud services in one way or another from different providers (including EU based like Hetzner) and never seen this before. It’s always been pay for what you use and nothing more, which is kind of the whole pitch of cloud services.

jeremyjh 4mo ago

Their website loads really fast. Its sad that this is remarkable, but it really is.

guerrilla 4mo ago
Damn, you're right. Ugh, everything else is truly molasses.
freakynit 4mo ago
Damn!! I just tried a few links from navbar... all loaded in an instant like they have already been cached, even though they were not (since I use firefox in full private mode, and haven't visited their site in like months before today).

mistic92 4mo ago

Interesting, but I have too much stuff configured in Cloudflare :<

unsungNovelty 4mo ago
All the more reason to use this? :)

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ramon156 4mo ago

I'm pretty bummed I never got hired at BunnyNet. Seems like such a cool company to work for, and I ticked their boxes in the application

kenanfyi 4mo ago

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.

hoechst 4mo ago

a free dns service? wow that's insane.

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chaz6 4mo ago

This is good news! For anybody wondering, there is a terraform provider available. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/BunnyWay/bunnynet/latest/docs https://registry.terraform.io/providers/BunnyWay/bunnynet/la...

wouldbecouldbe 4mo ago

Bunny.net is awesome!

anonzzzies 4mo ago

I do not mind paying for everything as long as there is good ddos protection as getting charged for stuff I cannot help is an immediate cancel and also I won’t pay, come get me.

sreekanth850 4mo ago

Biggest feature is dns loadbalancing.

tonyhart7 4mo ago

more competition is a good thing, always welcome for alternative

decide1000 4mo ago

Finally! Now it becomes economic for us to make the move! Goodbye CloudFlare!

injidup 4mo ago

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nottorp 4mo ago
Too bad, because it basically said they only use necessary cookies. I suppose you'd have complained if there were no cookie banner as well? I mean, that cookie popup saying there's no need for a cookie popup is probably there because someone complained there's no cookie popup...
- injidup 4mo ago
  The "Appreciate it" / "cool carry on" Is exactly the sort of confusing non choice options cookie banners give. Along the lines of "Accept all" / "more information" Then I'll retract my claim but it is bad UX to make a popup on the landing page that looks like an evil cookie banner.
  - nottorp 4mo ago
    I must agree the text on the buttons confused me too, but considering the article title and the first few comments I stopped and read the pop-up text. I’m in the habit of going interesting title -> skim a few comments -> then decide whether I should click on the article
bux93 4mo ago
Agreed. Their privacy page even says they'll remove data if you withdraw consent, but they don't ask for consent. They also don't mention any you could object to data processing, claiming that "Processing is necessary to perform a contract with the data subject and to take steps toward the conclusion of a business relationship." which is a very contorted interpretation; taking steps towards the conclusion is about making quotes and such. It makes me sour on their claims "Keep your data private, compliant, and fully in the EU. As a privacy-first European company, we help you stay aligned with GDPR. No surprises. Full transparency."
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AussieWog93 4mo ago

Just responding to Lapsa here - yes, you're shadowbanned. I looked into your post history and it looks like you were banned after making posts on unrelated threads about microwave transmissions causing auitory hallucinations. Dang directly said to you that he'd banned your account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429#48176202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429#48176202 All posts since then have come up dead, except for one about Factorio for some reason. On a side note, Lapsa, you can test your theory about microwave transmissions fairly easily by simply going inside of a faraday cage. Simplest method I can think of is to go to the hardware/furniture store and stand in a metal storage cabinet. If you can still hear the voices, then it means they're not being transmitted from external microwaves - a microwave capable of causing the Frey Effect can't penetrate thicker metal like that unless there are gaps of ~1cm or more. If others could please downvote this comment so that it goes to the bottom and he can see it, that would be greatly appreciated!

9294 4mo ago

Kudos to Bunny.net! I'm really waiting for a streamlined static website hosting experience to move everything to Bunny. At the moment, Cloudflare Pages is still much more straightforward with one CLI command to deploy a website. Also, we are using Bunny containers with our global API gateway with 16 worldwide locations and it is really crazy - the cost is $3.60/mo (Go backend + Bunny billing based on resource utilization, not provisioning). With a relatively small usage of 20k API requests/mo, it's still stupidly cheap.

bcye 4mo ago
I hope this might be of use to you, it's exactly that, one-command deployments. :) It's still early, but I'm using it across my deployments and it works pretty flawlessly. https://tangled.org/bruceroettgers.eu/bunnyup https://tangled.org/bruceroettgers.eu/bunnyup
- 9294 4mo ago
  nice, I will check it out!

Bender 4mo ago

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.

eikenberry 4mo ago
I've dug into this a bit and I'd say the answer is no, they do not support being used as a secondary.

1dom 4mo ago

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.

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rvz 4mo ago
Many people will realize this soon. Especially if private equity gets their hands on buying Bunny.net.

zazuke 4mo ago

Amazing, thanks for doing that. I just moved all my websites to Bunny CDN a couple of months ago, and I couldn't be happier. Great product, great website and interface.

pbronez 4mo ago

“As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.” This is smart. Ensures you have valid payment information, which implies a financial institution is running KYC on your customer. That reduces fraud and abuse while also reducing friction for real users to increase their spend within your ecosystem when a new product catches their eye.

loorke 4mo ago

They use .NET. Considering this choice, I doubt they will ever be as good as Cloudflare

YBuli 4mo ago

Nice thank you so much!

dzonga 4mo ago

seems both Bunny & Cloudflare - both have a SQLite product - has anyone used the sqlite products ? & what are your thoughts & opinions

Gelob 4mo ago

so its authoritative dns and not free dns resolution like 1.1.1.1

Sibexico 4mo ago

Wait, someone paid them for DNS before? It was many FREE DNS services since early 00's, I even will not say nothing about the domain names registrants who almost always (with literally few exceptions) provides free DNS.

sebiw 4mo ago
Domain Registrars usually have shitty, subpar DNS eg. without Anycast or DNSSEC.
- savikko 4mo ago
  If i have understood correctly, Anycast is not feature of DNS but a feature of BGP. Otherwise, that is my observation also.
  - celsoazevedo 4mo ago
    I believe they're referring to the DNS servers. The closer they are to the user, the faster a DNS resolution happens. A good provider will have different locations across the world, and users connect to the nearest datacentre. The free DNS some domain registrars offer is, sometimes, hosted at one single location. If the server is in the US and the user is in Europe, you're adding 80-150ms to requests. If they use "anycast" servers, the user could connect to a server 1-20ms away.
ralish 4mo ago
Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head: - Akamai DNS - AWS Route 53 - Azure DNS - Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan) - Google Cloud DNS And many, many others. And I note the site you posted this comment on is using Route 53, so probably paid as I doubt their query volume would be in the free tier. Paying for DNS for personal/hobby stuff is probably pretty uncommon, because like you say, most domain registrars will offer it for free. But commercial websites often will, particularly larger ones with serious traffic.
matja 4mo ago
Amazon Route 53 is $0.40 per million DNS queries - which would terrify me if I used it, considering a typical 10Gbit server connection hosted at a unscrupulous ASN with no egress IP filtering is capable of sending a million DNS requests per second from random spoofed IP addresses.

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nubinetwork 4mo ago

> Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries I've owned domains for ~20 years... I'm okay for paying for the domain, I'm okay with some of that money being used to maintain the DNS servers... I've never had a company charge for queries. Why would they do that?

spiderfarmer 4mo ago
GeoDNS often isn't free.
mikkei 4mo ago
Well, AWS is an example of provide who does charges for it, starting at $0.4/million queries...
lokar 4mo ago
Serving static records with reasonable TTLs (so you get caching) is pretty much always free. Dynamic, geo routed, load balanced low TTL queries tend to have a fee.

thrownaway561 4mo ago

how do they compare to cloudflare? It would be nice to see a comparison chart

tzury 4mo ago

200,000,000,000÷30÷24÷60÷60÷119 648 queries/second/location. Obviously not all locations are equal and not all seconds or minutes of the day are. Indeed an impressive scale.

hyperionultra 4mo ago

Not entirely free. Bunny account it-self costs 12$/year.

fredrickleo 4mo ago

I read this headline as "DNS free" and was intrigued, like they would be distributing hosts files or something.

Diti 4mo ago

I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other products. The day Bunny starts treating all their products evenly (and listen to requests asking to implement basic features) will be the day I will switch all my nonprofit communities to their services.

KomoD 4mo ago
> I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens. If it's just some simple website, then LLM/crawlers probably won't get you anywhere near thousands of euros. The CDN costs $0.01 - $0.06 per GB ... You can limit some of their services, like the CDN (which is the most important one in my opinion): - Download speed limit - Requests per IP - Data transfer per IP - Max connections per IP And monthly bandwidth limit, which disables the zone if you reach x GB.
kassner 4mo ago
You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance. AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.
- jedisct1 4mo ago
  Exactly! I once had some pretty serious DoS attack, but fortunately, I didn't had to pay more than what was pre-paid.
- mhitza 4mo ago
  It's not purely prepaid otherwise I wouldn't be charged into negative (see my other comment in this thread).

teekert 4mo ago

This is nice, I have some nameservers pointing to Hetzner so I can use Caddy to do domain validation via API and get https (with dedicated domains) on private LANs. But the Hetzner API keys are horribly, uncomfortably over-scoped and I haven't found a way to reduce that. At least when I do DNS at bunny, a leaked key can't rent VMs on my CC. And I prefer EU infra (cloudflare works great though for this usecase). Who knows that my bunny account can grow into ;)

herodotus 4mo ago

I am seeing way to many "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." from Cloudfare these days. It strikes me that, if it has verified my client once, it should hold off at least for a day or so before putting me through that hoop again. How does Bunny DNS deal with bot protection?

timpera 4mo ago
I have the same experience, and I ended up removing Cloudflare from the websites I manage since there were too many complaints from users with shared connections or exotic browsers.
mmarian 4mo ago
Not sure if you're talking about different sites or same one. If different sites, it doesn't make much sense to add that feature because site owners would rarely (if ever) want it. If same site, blame again the site owner who has the ability to configure challenge cookie expiry.
Chu4eeno 4mo ago
Wasn't Privacy Pass supposed to fix this? Let the browser generate and store some PoW or something that it hands off to the site, so each site doesn't have to do the same thing. https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension seems kind of dead (a dependabot zombie). eta: I completely missed this two days ago: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-collaborates-with-leading-browsers-to-develop-a-privacy-first-protocol-for-the-global-internet/ https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl...

awill 4mo ago

I just signed up. The website (despite saying it's free here) has numerous banners of trials and free credits. Not quite what I was expecting from 'free'

KomoD 4mo ago
They offer more services than just DNS.. their DNS service is "free", their other services aren't.

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jcalabro 4mo ago

We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience! Team is great, service is great, price is great.

mmarian 4mo ago

Great news, but CDN doesn't have free tier like Cloudflare's unfortunately, so not an option for my projects ATM.

mrbluecoat 4mo ago

> We implemented DNSSEC with NSEC Black Lies That's pretty cool. Learned something new today. Best wishes in your new business model!

pixel_popping 4mo ago

Excellent commercial move!

xinayder 4mo ago

I wish they provided an alternative to Cloudflare WARP as well.

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nabeards 4mo ago

I can finally automate our wildcard certs. Our current DNS host doesn’t have an API.

elashri 4mo ago

I think it is a step in the right direction for bunny to be a competitive for the people on hobby/self hosting. But I think that having a free tier for CDN is what makes cloudflare attractive (Among other things).

nashashmi 4mo ago

How would I quantitatively test which dns server is the fastest one available to me?

ah1508 4mo ago

I just discovered bunny.net thanks to this post. I'd be happy to move my static websites on bunny.net, but is it possible (like on cloudflare) to map requests to /foo to the foo.html file ? According to what I read on the documentation it is not a edge rule.

dieselgate 4mo ago
Pardon my ignorance but am curious what is an "edge rule"? Is it a tech-related term (i.e. edge case) or a figure of speech?
- Chu4eeno 4mo ago
  "Edge" was the new "client", now it's everything outside your own servers, or at the border between your server and everyone else.
- looperhacks 4mo ago
  See also: Edge Computing

thenews 4mo ago

really excited for bunny, i am sure things (dns import) would be fixed eventually

frodomaximusss 4mo ago

Is this faster than Cloudflare?

hnarn 4mo ago

The first few hundred words on that page does not explain why I should care about this, and amazingly neither does the comments here on HN.

yoyohello13 4mo ago
Top Comment > EU based alternative to Cloudflare
nateb2022 4mo ago
Curious if bunny.net offers any measurable DNS performance improvements over Cloudflare or vice versa.
- HDBaseT 4mo ago
  Depends, Cloudflare likely still beats them on average. It is worth noting bunny.net doesn't provide a Public DNS Resolver, this isn't like 1.1.1.1.
sysworld 4mo ago
This is what I came to HN for too, usually it works well, but yeah not so clear in this one. I check the comments, if it looks interesting then I'll read the article.

moontear 4mo ago

Their claim is that they are European, but I see a US support hotline in the footer and all prices are in Dollar. Seems to be targeting the US market (which is smart), but I don't know whether the European angle wins there.

__MatrixMan__ 4mo ago

Faster name resolution is chasing a local maximum. The better path to improving the internet is to rely on DNS less and content addressing more, that way content stays accessible as long as somebody on your part of the network has it.

lokar 4mo ago
Something still has to locate the resource you want, and that will involve something equivalent to DNS.
- __MatrixMan__ 4mo ago
  Sure but it's a different game if instead of finding the machine that has the data, it can find any machine that has the data. That machine might be elsewhere on your lan or elsewhere in your city.
  - lokar 4mo ago
    But that's not how DNS works. It does not find /the/ node that matches the host element of the resource. It finds a list of nodes (often a subset of eligible nodes).

johnathan101 4mo ago

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MadsRC 4mo ago

Amazing news! The one thing I wish they’d support is multiple zones and an RBAC system to grant certain users access to specific zones. If they’d offer that they’d be a serious contender to replace Cloudflare and AWS/GCP DNS

naikrovek 4mo ago

Wow they made something free that I’ve used for 30+ years and have never paid for in my life. Amazing, what an accomplishment! What Herculean effort it must have taken! What the hell am I missing here?

dabinat 4mo ago
A lot of providers have basic DNS for free but charge for more sophisticated uses like geo routing. AWS charges for every single thing: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/ I refuse to use Cloudflare for two reasons: 1) It’s free until it’s not and they don’t tell you where that limit is. 2) If something goes wrong you cannot contact anyone unless you have an enterprise agreement. Just paying them money is not enough to be able to speak to a person. I had serious issues with R2 and had no-one to contact. They have a Discord and you see people posting the same issues over and over again that never get fixed.

slickytail 4mo ago

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moontear 4mo ago

So what’s the functional difference to Cloudflare (free) DNS? Anything besides „this is European“ that makes me want to switch?

vanwal_j 4mo ago

What would be even nicer: - Make your privacy policy less shady so we're sure you're not sending data to Hyperscalers subject to Cloud Act - Support the Vary header so we can build a real, self hosted, european Vercel alternative

raggi 4mo ago

I have been fed up with DNSimple for a long time. Can any folks share positive experiences with Bunny?

htx80nerd 4mo ago

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tomhow 4mo ago
We've asked you before to avoid posting like this, but you continue submitting low-substance or inflammatory comments, including several containing barbs about nationalities/regions. This has to stop if you want to keep participating here. HN is for curious conversation, not battle, sneering or snark. When people keep commenting like this we have to assume they want to be banned, so we'll have to go ahead and do that if it happens again. Please read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661023 and marked it off topic.

da768 4mo ago

Now we just need a EU based alternative to Let's Encrypt

kassner 4mo ago
It depends how much EU do you need. ZeroSSL is through HID Global, part of Assa Abloy, a Swedish public company. HID, however, is American according to Wikipedia. Caddy uses ZeroSSL by default. If you want only single host certificates, Actalis is Italian and issues free ones as well: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Actalis.com-CA https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Actalis.com-...

whh 4mo ago

Yay! I love Bunny DNS!

manytimesaway 4mo ago

On the other hand, I was using Bunny DNS free for years, and now I have to pay $1/month to use it. Need to migrate somewhere else.

sieabahlpark 4mo ago

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elpy1 4mo ago

Just switched over a domain to Bunny with ping-based latency routing successfully. Thanks! One small bit of feedback: HTTPS records were neither discovered nor imported during the zone import. I was able to manually create them but just a FYI.

tdondich 4mo ago

Pretty awesome move by the bunny team. I've checked it out and I really like the interface. But one thing I really like is the scripting ability to script DNS responses. Good choice opening this up in the product portfolio, even if you still need to use $1 a month in spend in order to support this. That being said, their monitoring is a little light. I'm the founder at DNS Spy and having an external tool that can monitor your DNS service as well as identify problems when it comes to your DNS record configurations plus additional security checks and phishing domain detection. Take a look at our write up about Bunny's move. Congrats to the team. https://dnsspy.io/blog/bunny-dns-free-review-monitoring https://dnsspy.io/blog/bunny-dns-free-review-monitoring

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