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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? >
by 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 agoYou had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.
- khurs 4mo agoYes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)
- thepasch 4mo agosomething something are the product
- rozenmd 4mo agoNot _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 agoWell except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
- khurs 4mo agoCloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.
- trick-or-treat 4mo agoMove up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
- Barbing 4mo agoCloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
- Chu4eeno 4mo agoCloudflare's business model was to protect DDoS "providers"/booters for free, so DDoS became something everyone had to worry about (before cloudflare they tended to DDoS eachother), and then sell the cure. Krebs wrote some rather scathing posts about them when they were starting up.
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- chaz6 4mo agoI wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.
- dizhn 4mo agoYou only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.
- chaz6 3mo agoYou are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
- dizhn 3mo agoI just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.
- dizhn 4mo agoFirst time I am hearing of paying for DNS resolution but I am just a civilian.
- iso1631 4mo agoroute53 charge somewhere in the region of $0.40 per million queries
- anonzzzies 4mo agoAws charges for everything including that.
- Scaled 4mo agoI'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free? Even barely used domains were getting tons of queries. And I only need the fancy failover feature on a couple domains, though it is nice for those for sure. Anyway with this I don't have to worry about it anymore, so thanks Bunny!
- bcye 4mo agoThey were charging for nameserver hosting. The main draw are some advanced programmatic features for (geo) routing, scripting, etc.
- summarity 4mo agoTheir DNS is also scriptable, it’s not just a name server
- Havoc 4mo agoThe 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
- 1dom 4mo agoThe 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.
- dizhn 4mo agoBesides $1 means you need to give them your credit card from day one. That's probably the only reason they have that minimum limit to begin with.
- inigyou 4mo agoKYC is a thing in Europe. Internet infrastructure businesses won't do business anonymously as they'd be held liable for anything their anonymous customer did.
- toast0 4mo ago> It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? High end DNS hosting is often billed around the number of queries, number of zones, and number of records, number of special names with fancy features, etc. If you're switching from other DNS hosting, you might not even know what the query volume is, so that's kind of exciting when you need to make a switch. If you were paying per query and the cost was too high, raising TTLs and consolidating services onto fewer hostnames are pretty achievable ways to reduce the query volume, so it is something you have some control over.