Bunny.net

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1. 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.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

2. 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

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites”

3. Bunny CDN is so reasonably priced and the realistic visitor ceiling for my projects is low enough that it's still negligible.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

4. Bunny has a lot of that (they have a sqlite compatible API, edge functions, but the call it something different, etc.)

   Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

5. Bunny is the MVP among these European alternatives. It's not just a CDN, it offers Cloudflare-style Edge scripting

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

6. it's not bad. It has some rough edges, but it does what it's supposed to and I haven't experienced any downtime.

   Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

7. Bunny.net purports to have a pay-as-you-go prepaid credit system that sounds like it works the way people want

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs”

8. I've switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector”

9. as an Slovenian company they adhere to the GDPR, no GAG orders, and offer an Data Processing Agreement

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

10. Its European rather than from USA so its less dependent on that orange guy in that white/golden house

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Bunny Database”

11. the cost is $3.60/mo (Go backend + Bunny billing based on resource utilization, not provisioning)

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself”

12. I've been using their cloud storage and CDN for a couple of years. No complaints. Super reliable.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”

13. Bunny.net is a good alternative - they don’t have CF depth of offerings but are getting there

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

14. Bunny has very solid edge runtime if you manage to squeeze it into wasm or magic containers

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo”

15. I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins.

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”

16. It's pretty good, and I managed to dodge the last major Cloudflare outage which was nice.

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

17. Bunny.net offers similar compute/serverless on the edge, close to Cloudflares offerings.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD”

18. We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience!

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself”

19. I’ve now been with Bunny.net for over a year and have been very happy with the service.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

20. My buying preferences have definitely shifted to "Buy not American" on digital things.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6”

21. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself”

22. I can have global instantly scalable API's that cost me barely $1 a month until used.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

23. I wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”

24. I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting”

25. Pretty good experience. And they're rolling out new functionality at a good pace.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Migrating to the EU”

26. Slovenian company, no CLOUD Act exposure, no third-party bot management cookies.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps”

27. Bunny CDN served me and others great when it comes to a Cloudflare alternative

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe”

28. I have been using them for over a year. THey have the same flow as Cloudflare

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Bunny Database”

29. The point of picking Bunny.net is that it's alternative to this single entity

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”

30. the essentials are there and you can easily pay as you go with a credit card

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026”

31. 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.

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Bunny CDN Security Incident”

32. 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.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option to Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4”

33. 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.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”

34. 15 months of fobbing him off, and once the case has been raised publicly the very senior guy _suddenly_ sees it as a priority

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”

35. BunnyCDN's DDoS protection is unfortunately too basic to filter out anything that's ever so slightly more sophisticated.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”

36. Any provider such as them who is not sufficiently confident in their security to be willing and able to discuss security

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Bunny CDN Security Incident”

37. denying or lying about there being any issue as serious as significant data loss for over a year like Bunny did

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”

38. we found no evidence that anything happened, nothing probably happened, but rotate your keys to be certain

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Bunny CDN Security Incident”

39. this has been going on for 15 months without resolution or recompense and you haven't pulled up stakes

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”

40. the VP of engineering's response is a bit more worrying in how it mainly tries to downplay the issue

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”