Not many DNS management providers (that I'm aware of, please correct me) support CNAME flattening. That is having your A record point to a CNAME.
Every time I purge the pull zone cache, I do it twice, cause once from my CI isn't enough. My CI does individual page cache invalidation during deployment, but there needs to be some kind of delay (with no feedback) when assets are distributed across.
also I said this in a another thread, they charges 1$ even for single testing http request.
Almost all technological choices I made as a teen were driven by "what hosting can I get for free, as my parents sure as hell won't put down their payment information for that". Back then that usually meant PHP and a max. 50MB MySQL.
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So 1 euro a month is too expensive for you? Wow.
Just pay the 1 Euro or go to GitHub where that is free but goes down almost every week.
I hear this argument all the time, but I think it's more complicated.
Firstly, if people used more diverse / smaller services the distribution of outages would change. While there will likely to be more frequent "smaller" asynchronous outages, many platforms can still break even when only one of their dependencies break. So, you might likely to face even more frequent outages, although not synchronous.
Secondly, we are not sure if these smaller services are on par with the reliability of Cloudflare and other big players.
Thirdly, not all Cloudflare infrastructure is fully centralized. There is definitely some degree of distribution and independence in/between different Cloudflare services. Some Cloudflare outages can still be non global (limited by region or customers that use certain feature set, etc).
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.
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.
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.
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.
[1] Not completely sure but I think this was the incident https://blog.dnsimple.com/2020/07/incident-dns-resolution/
>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.
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.
I’ve now been with Bunny.net for over a year and have been very happy with the service.
Some of our users were unable to reach our CDN altogether. They couldn't load any assets at all. Bunny's customer service was far too slow to respond and mostly gave unhelpful answers. They couldn't even identify the issue.
In less than 45 minutes, I moved our CDN entirely from Bunny to Cloudflare Workers. Now our CDN just actually works, I don't have to debug our CDN for the Bunny customer service team.
Also, this is obviously a marketing post.
In a time where more people usually beg for forgiveness instead of asking for permission, it already has
I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides "free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now".
I'd rather have a low fee now, a change from $2 to $3 is more likely and that's fine for me. But from free to not free is risky for me.
I also like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That's why I use bunny.net, transistor.fm, Plausible Analytics.
You can just move to another provider at that point. At least when it comes to CDN and DNS there’s literally no vendor lock-in.
You can grab your dns records export them to csv and import somewhere else easily and a CDN is just a file server so you can just give your files to someone else easily.
Practically, any metered supplier can put you out of business. It usually doesn't happen because destruction is mutually assured.
+1 for using smaller, more independent companies in any case!
But I hit a real issue recently: CDN edge caching served stale HTML after a deploy, and the service worker cached the bad response. Took a CDN purge from the dashboard to fix. The debugging experience when things go wrong at the edge is painful, you're always guessing which cache layer is the problem.
That being said, the free tier is hard to beat for getting started. Workers, Pages, KV, R2 — you can run a full production app at near-zero cost until you hit scale. Not sure if Bunny offers that.
Some of you may be skeptical about this but it allows for much easier management when working on multiple SaaS/hobby projects/personal tools.
As a consequence I've had to build quite defensively - adopting a PWA approach - heavy caching and background sync. My hope is that latency improves over time because the platform is nice to work with.
There’s a cost limit to how much high availability is worth on any project but vendors like CloudFlare don’t respect that.
That being said, I had enough issues with Bunny and CF debugging across regions that I made this free tool to do both remote HTTP and TCP traceroutes to keep my sanity: https://dnsisbeautiful.com/global-http-availability
edit: I'm thinking of the use case where the CDN as a proxy for APIs and uncachable content as well, where it used as a reverse proxy for transit/ddos protection.
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::1310:1They 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.
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.
turblety•1h ago