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  • > 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?

    by nubinetwork
  • 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.

    by lokar
  • Well, AWS is an example of provide who does charges for it, starting at $0.4/million queries...
    by mikkei
  • GeoDNS often isn't free.
    by spiderfarmer
  • Their website loads really fast. Its sad that this is remarkable, but it really is.
    by jeremyjh
  • Damn, you're right. Ugh, everything else is truly molasses.
    by guerrilla
  • 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).
    by freakynit
  • 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.

    by kenanfyi
  • 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.
    by bcye
  • I wish for the sme. Right now I‘ve created specialized edge functions to e.g. make a deployment which has the global access key.

    So, my scripts on my servers dont have the bunny api key. Its only saved within those edge functions and I authenticate against the edge functions.

    A little bit more effort than scoped keys but it works

    by tpetry
  • 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

    by joe-at-bunny
  • 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?
    by herodotus
  • 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.
    by mmarian
  • 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 seems kind of dead (a dependabot zombie).

    eta: I completely missed this two days ago: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl...

    by Chu4eeno
  • 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.
    by timpera
  • 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.

    by 9294
  • 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

    by bcye
  • 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

    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.

    by JdeBP
  • 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.
    by hnarn
  • 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.

    by sysworld
  • Curious if bunny.net offers any measurable DNS performance improvements over Cloudflare or vice versa.
    by nateb2022
  • Top Comment

    > EU based alternative to Cloudflare

    by yoyohello13
  • 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.

    by Diti
  • > 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.

    by KomoD
  • I’m not sure which Bunny service you’re referring to specifically but Bunny Shield can mitigate DDOS attacks and block bots.
    by dabinat
  • 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.

    by kassner
  • 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.

    by dizhn
  • You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.
    by KingOfCoders
  • Their DNS is also scriptable, it’s not just a name server
    by summarity
  • The 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
    by Havoc