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Posted by shintoist 11 hours ago

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net(jola.dev)
363 points | 187 commentspage 4
smartbit 9 hours ago|
IMHO main benefit of bunny.net is that as an Slovenian company they adhere to the GDPR, no GAG orders, and offer an Data Processing Agreement (DPA) when Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is involved.

See https://bunny.net/gdpr/. Also noticed this:

While uncommon, bunny.net also provides a way to block users from the EU from accessing your content altogether by using our traffic manager tools if you do not wish to serve users from the European Union. Which I assume can be reversed, only serving to users from the EU.

Bigpet 9 hours ago||
Well it seems like whatever's on that page is blocked by the corporate proxy malware scanner I'm currently behind.
vvpan 10 hours ago||
I do not understand what it is about Cloudflare. Especially for a blog post - won't pretty much anything do?
mystraline 5 hours ago||
I reported this to HN a month ago:

https://social.mikutter.hachune.net/@mok/116208294430782702

BunnyCDN intentionally mis-writes any Mastodon request signing, as to make it incompatible with Mastodon.

And, they confirmed it's intentional.

uxcolumbo 5 hours ago|
Why is it intentional?
mystraline 5 hours ago||
That was what the link indicated.

The user sent in a help ticket, and Bunny confirmed this response rewrite was intentional and would not fix it.

I wanted to get this out, not to conjecture as to why.

syngrog66 3 hours ago||
I understand desire to get off US infra. But Bunny.net is Slovenian, and Slovenia borders Hungary, a de facto Russian vassal state. Other nations would be safer. If you want to de-risk you should really de-risk.
msavara 9 hours ago||
Yes. Bunny is excellent, never had an issue with it.
reactordev 7 hours ago||
The only thing stopping everyone is the convenience. Someone already does this? Cool, here’s my credit card. For the Non-US folks, you’re just as capable. Good to see a company like Bunny realize it. It’s just a bunch of computers and some networking, what could go wrong? /s (but seriously, you can do this…)
mannanj 9 hours ago||
R2 is pretty darn hard to beat. No egress, and only like $.57 per million read operations. If you're running a video streaming use case (and not using terabytes and caching or abusing your bandwidth) I found no one else compares.

Does anyone have thoughts or disagree on this in terms of pricing and cost effectiveness?

jrochkind1 5 hours ago|
When you serve video from R2, you do it directly from R2 to client, not with an additional Cloudflare CDN in front, and that works fine? I have been trying to understand video and R2.
maxdo 11 hours ago||
make Europe great again, and no, this is so different from any other nationalist moves :)
swiftcoder 11 hours ago||
Surely by definition, being pro-EU is automatically anti-nationalism (at least for everyone inside the EU)?
cbg0 11 hours ago||
The extremists want you to believe that, but the EU is an economic alliance, not a federal republic. Being pro-EU is usually anti-isolationist, but it isn't always anti-nationalist.
tick_tock_tick 5 hours ago|||
> EU is an economic alliance

lol that ship sailed a long time ago it's certainly not a full federal republic but it's a lot closer to one then a mere "economic alliance".

swiftcoder 10 hours ago|||
> the EU is an economic alliance, not a federal republic

The line between those two things in the case of the EU is awful blurry.

The Espace Léopold issues laws that are binding on member nations, wields significant power over trade, fiscal policy, and mandates open borders between member nations. These are hardly the features of a purely economic treaty organisation.

lpcvoid 11 hours ago|||
I am pro-EU and anti-nationalist. This works because the EU is a collection of states.
noir_lord 10 hours ago||
I'm pro-EU and my country is no longer in the EU (annoyingly).

It's not perfect but it's better than the alternatives and we really need a power bloc (even if currently only economic) that isn't the US and China.

Alternatives to US big tech are always welcome.

moralestapia 11 hours ago|
Nice ad.

>One of my biggest concerns though is around how easily I could become heavily dependent on this one single company that then can decide to cut me off [...]

How does switching to Bunny make a difference?

It would be super nice to have a setup that uses multiple CDNs w/ automatic failover.

Bender 11 hours ago|
It would be super nice to have a setup that uses multiple CDNs w/ automatic failover.

Doable, but that removes all the free tiers of all the CDN's. AFAIK they all require an enterprise account to keep using ones own DNS and their own GSLB DNS failover. There are probably a few exceptions and one could maybe make something of that but I don't know which ones are the exceptions.

bakugo 11 hours ago||
What other CDNs even have decent free tiers besides Cloudflare?
Bender 10 hours ago||
I don't know. I started to go down that path but all the CDN's that suggested some aspect of try before buying were in places outside of the US and had non US payment processors so I moved on to other projects. I doubt that there are many. I suspect Cloudflare only do it as a result of dual-use and that dual-use may be backed by tax dollars as there is no way a publicly traded company would give away massive network resources at a loss but that is my own conspiracy theory. i.e. an extension to Googles birds of a feather project. Capture most web traffic, most DNS traffic and learn who talks to who and why to form a risk map.
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