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Posted by shintoist 9 hours ago

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net(jola.dev)
356 points | 184 commentspage 3
tambre 8 hours ago|
Seemingly lacks IPv6 though? Cloudflare requires you to pay them and make an explicit effort to disable IPv6. Sad to see it not enabled by default on Bunny.
zorked 4 hours ago||
They do support IPv6 but not in every POP, unless something changed.

I have IPv6-only backends and I had to select serving from the main POPs rather than the entire network (which is fine by me as they are also cheaper).

forbiddenlake 7 hours ago||
How did you determine that Bunny lacks IPv6?

The CDN certainly has it: https://bunny.net/blog/ipv6-returns-to-bunnycdn/

Depending on where I query from, OP's blog does have it as well:

    # host jola.dev
    jola.dev has address 37.19.207.38
    jola.dev has IPv6 address 2400:52e0:1a04::1310:1
tambre 3 hours ago||
Seems @zorked is correct about some POPs simply lacking IPv6. I simply happened to hit one of those. Quite disappointing but I guess Bunny is on the cheap side and doesn't actually own or manage their network like big CDNs do.
evolve2k 9 hours ago||
I’ve mainly been using cloudflare for the very excellent (and free) premium DNS offering.

Easy upload of bind test files Flattened CNAME to support naked domains Robust free role based permissions to add other ppl

Anyone have suggestions for moving a stack of domains, many being little community and hobby projects away from cloudflare for a small overall price. Agency pricing like migadu offers for email on custom domains is what I have in mind.

https://www.migadu.com/pricing/

zetanor 7 hours ago||
I've tested just about every DNS provider I could find. Self-hosting and Bunny aside, my needs are especially well met by CloudDNS and LuaDNS.

https://www.cloudns.net/premium/

https://www.luadns.com/pricing.html

I've found every other offering to be lacking. Some examples: Cloudflare is alright but has settings footguns if you're not used to Their Way of Doing It™ (e.g., before using DNSControl, I had to manually flip switches to turn off proxying every time I updated my zones). deSEC is free and okay, but sometimes quite slow to propagate and its UI+API are unwieldy. DNS Made Easy is often pushed on social media, but it's ridiculously pricey for what you get if you don't need a SLA. DNSimple seemed nice but IIRC I couldn't get a different API token per zone (?).

I'm currently relying mainly on LuaDNS. For me, it functions as a "dumb" DNS host (i.e., not using their Lua configuration-as-code system). Their API is oddly designed, but it's been passable since a recent-ish update, which has allowed me to safely port my zone files to DNSControl.

https://dnscontrol.org

evolve2k 9 hours ago|||
I should add a friend has recommended DNsimple.com and I’ve previously found their service to be excellent.

https://dnsimple.com/

50 cents per domain per month 10 cents per million queries

That’s prob cheap enough to support lots of little hobby sites and bigger traffic sites likely have some budget.

mawalu 8 hours ago|||
I used them in the past (many years ago) and was very surprised when my DNS was affected by a cloudflare outage. Turns out (back then) they relied on the cf network for DoS protection against their resolvers[1]. I was surprised to learn that and honestly thought that if I already take a dependency on cloudflare I might as well have them host my zones directly for free.

[1] Not completely sure but I think this was the incident https://blog.dnsimple.com/2020/07/incident-dns-resolution/

aeden 8 hours ago||
At one point we were using Cloudflare's DNS Firewall product for our entire edge network. We have since moved half of our edge network to our own infrastructure and are currently in the process of expanding our edge network further, so at this point an outage at Cloudflare should be at least partially mitigated for our customers due to our separate edge network, and eventually it should be completely independent.
aeden 4 hours ago||||
Thanks for recommending us, I (and the rest of the team) appreciate it.
corford 9 hours ago|||
Second DNSimple. Cheap to start and lots of nice features/support if you grow e.g. terraform provider, an acme.sh plugin, Okta support etc.
chrisweekly 9 hours ago|||
I make a point of using a dedicated service provider for each distinct service. YMMV but I'm happy with DNSMadeEasy (DNS), IWantMyName (registrar) and Fastmail (email).
lpcvoid 9 hours ago|||
Try desec.io, I use them and am very happy. Free DNSSEC, which some other DNS hosters want to charge you for (IONOS, looking at you).
nicbvs 9 hours ago||
You can use Bunny for DNS-only, it works well
KingOfCoders 8 hours ago||
Have been with them for quite some time, have some Hugo websites with them, do DNS through them, get their minimum $1 invoice each month. Love them.
sassymuffinz 8 hours ago||
I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.

They recently upgraded the player for streaming media, we use in one instance for tutorial videos, that apparently adds some missing accessibility features. All we needed to do was adjust the embed URL structure we were using and all set.

kordlessagain 4 hours ago||
Anything that says goodbye to Cloudflare man-in-the-middlinging is joy to my big ears.
sylens 7 hours ago||
I would probably switch off Cloudflare if I didn't also make use of their Cloudflare Tunnels service for sharing some stuff in a way that doesn't require me to punch a hole in my home network. I realize Pangolin and such also exist, but it's nice to get it for free
__natty__ 7 hours ago||
I love bunny.net. For my use case it provides lower latency than Cloudflare.
tao_oat 9 hours ago||
I tried to move my sites to Bunny Edge Scripting and found the experience mostly poor, unfortunately. A lot of failures without error logs, and purging the pull zone cache only seemed to work sometimes. A shame because I like their offering otherwise.
fallat 5 hours ago||
I'd much rather read "Dropping everything for self-sufficiency"
ewy1 9 hours ago|
your enthusiasm for the service might be justified but having every mention of its name be a hyperlink with referral code feels offputting like i'm about to enter a multi-level marketing scheme
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