# Bunny.net 121 Hacker News commenters recommended Bunny.net and 52 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (16 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** A cheap, pay-as-you-go European CDN with edge scripting, popular as a Cloudflare alternative, though critics cite a data-loss bug downplayed for 15 months and a poorly handled security incident. ## Why people recommend it - Reliable, positive day-to-day experience (8 comments): "it's not bad. It has some rough edges, but it does what it's supposed to and I haven't experienced any downtime." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610421)) "I've been using their cloud storage and CDN for a couple of years. No complaints. Super reliable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159856)) "It's pretty good, and I managed to dodge the last major Cloudflare outage which was nice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678365)) - European, GDPR-friendly Cloudflare alternative (10 comments): "Bunny CDN is great, HQ located in Ljubljana, Slovenia and also have great support which seems most faster and gives better responses than most others out there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780439)) "Bunny is the MVP among these European alternatives. It's not just a CDN, it offers Cloudflare-style Edge scripting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608382)) "I've switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976849)) - Cheap usage-based pay-as-you-go billing (6 comments): "Bunny bills per resource utilization (not provisioned) and since we run backend on Go it consumes like 0.01 CPU and 15mb RAM per idle container and costs pennies." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680475)) "Bunny CDN is so reasonably priced and the realistic visitor ceiling for my projects is low enough that it's still negligible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679429)) "Bunny.net purports to have a pay-as-you-go prepaid credit system that sounds like it works the way people want" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800133)) - Cloudflare-style edge scripting and containers (5 comments): "Bunny has a lot of that (they have a sqlite compatible API, edge functions, but the call it something different, etc.)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676612)) "Bunny is the MVP among these European alternatives. It's not just a CDN, it offers Cloudflare-style Edge scripting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608382)) "Bunny has very solid edge runtime if you manage to squeeze it into wasm or magic containers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443628)) ## What people warn about - Data loss downplayed for months (4 comments): "15 months of fobbing him off, and once the case has been raised publicly the very senior guy _suddenly_ sees it as a priority" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712576)) "denying or lying about there being any issue as serious as significant data loss for over a year like Bunny did" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730311)) "this has been going on for 15 months without resolution or recompense and you haven't pulled up stakes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711852)) - Worrying security incident handling (4 comments): "some of the events look really bad for the company. Especially the fact that TLS certificates that customers entrusted bunny now need to be revoked by the customers themselves." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309480)) "Any provider such as them who is not sufficiently confident in their security to be willing and able to discuss security" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309561)) "we found no evidence that anything happened, nothing probably happened, but rotate your keys to be certain" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310645)) - No support for IPv6-only origins (3 comments): "I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662)) "I wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085823)) "Dont get me started on CDNs like Bunny or Load Balancers as a service like those from Hetzner, UpCloud, etc that don't work with ipv6 origins." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601357)) - Weak DDoS and bot protection (2 comments): "We sent a ticket that activating some of their services instantly caused bad bots to scan our site, and never got a decent reply on that." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607985)) "BunnyCDN's DDoS protection is unfortunately too basic to filter out anything that's ever so slightly more sophisticated." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964641)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Cloudflare](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare.md): 744 recommend - [Amazon CloudFront](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-cloudfront.md): 24 recommend - [Cloudflare CDN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-cdn.md): 12 recommend - [Fastly CDN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fastly.md): 10 recommend - [Cloudflare Workers Cache](https://hackerapproved.com/p/workers-cache.md): 10 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://bunny.net/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Bunny.net", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bunny-net/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).