Bunny.net Magic Containers
Shares rank 6 of 7 container hostings by recommenders
People recommend it for scaling down well and for a strong no-surprise-bills pricing story. Critics mainly point to high raw pricing.
People recommend it for scaling down well and for a strong no-surprise-bills pricing story. Critics mainly point to high raw pricing.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised as excellent overall
“Yes, Magic Containers is excellent. I don't know if it scales up to huge loads well -- that might be expensive -- but it scales down really well.”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net” “their Magic Containers are amazing”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
High raw pricing
“They absolute take an L on raw pricing, but their "don't send me surprise 100k bills" story is very strong”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “Migrating from Heroku to Magic Containers” “The bunny.net spend (if run 24/7) comes to almost a dollar an hour.”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “Migrating from Heroku to Magic Containers”
Other container hostings people recommend
The four most recommended other container hostings, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Run | 38 | 17 | 69% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Amazon ECS | 34 | 9 | 79% | 9 | — | Approved |
| AWS Fargate | 10 | 13 | 43% | 7 | — | — |
| Cloudflare Containers | 9 | 5 | 64% | 7 | — | — |
| Bunny.net Magic ContainersThis page | 6 | 6 | 50% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the health checks didn't detect them”
“Yes, Magic Containers is excellent. I don't know if it scales up to huge loads well -- that might be expensive -- but it scales down really well.”
“their Magic Containers are amazing”
“Might work well for large publishers I guess.”
“They absolute take an L on raw pricing, but their "don't send me surprise 100k bills" story is very strong”
“That was probably the main off-putting aspect to me.”
“They're not doing a great job communicating this imo.”
“The bunny.net spend (if run 24/7) comes to almost a dollar an hour.”
“This category of hosting should be far more popular than it is, and it is wonderful to see another company offer it.”
“Magic containers can only pull images from DockerHub or Github, no other registry is supported.”
“I think whoever came up with this at Bunny is missing the magic sauce of Heroku.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.