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by Havoc8 hours ago |
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upvoteby dwedge17 minutes ago|
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It is bad, because I don't use Bunny for anything else and so this made it paid DNS for me, so when I was migrating DNS a few months ago it made me rule them out.
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upvoteby 1dom8 hours ago|
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The 1 dollar thing, I think, looks exceptionally bad because it shows that what Bunny says can't be taken at face value.

The fact is we're here because they posted a blog talking about how great they are making DNS free "because a faster internet won’t build itself".

But now I've just learnt from comments on HN that Bunny DNS isn't free.

They've lost my trust before they even had it.

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upvoteby dwedge16 minutes ago|
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Yeah I ruled them out months ago because it was $1, I saw this post and was about to reconsider them and in my case it's the same as it was.
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upvoteby dizhn8 hours ago|
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Besides $1 means you need to give them your credit card from day one. That's probably the only reason they have that minimum limit to begin with.
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upvoteby inigyou7 hours ago|
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KYC is a thing in Europe. Internet infrastructure businesses won't do business anonymously as they'd be held liable for anything their anonymous customer did.
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upvoteby notsound3 hours ago|
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Most European hosting providers don't KYC. Infrastructure providers are rarely held liable for customer actions in Europe. Most enforcement around this sort of thing is around sanctions violations (Stark Industries).
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upvoteby Chu4eeno4 hours ago|
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Isn't mullvad european?
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upvoteby dewey3 hours ago|
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Yes, but nobody is by default held liable for their anonymous customers. Otherwise you would not be able to buy anything with cash any more.
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upvoteby shimman4 hours ago|
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You don't need a credit card on file, you can prepay and use that balance instead.

I'll also say that I've used around 140 gigs of bandwidth the last two months and my costs has only been <$2. Worth it to me, and doubly worth it to avoid the tyranny of big tech (which includes cloudflare).

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upvoteby Havoc7 hours ago|
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Huh?

It literally explains this in the blog post

> 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.

Sure seems like you’re trying very hard to find a problem here.

If you’re not down with their prepaid/$1 model there is always CF.

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upvoteby dust-jacket6 hours ago|
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No, this is just a silly take.

AWS can make data export free, and no-one's going to shout at them that it's not free because it cost money to store the data there in the first place.

Bunny offers a number of services to paying customers. One of the services, that would previously have incurred a cost, now does not. It is free.

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