GoKawiilTL;DR my motivation and experience for moving my blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net
I’ve been a long time Cloudflare user. They offer a solid service that is free for the vast majority of their users, that’s very generous. Their infrastructure is massive and their feature set is undeniably incredible.
One of my biggest concerns though is around how easily I could become heavily dependent on this one single company that then can decide to cut me off and disable all of my websites, for any arbitrary reason. It’s a single point of failure for the internet. Every Cloudflare outage ends up in the news. And I can’t help but feel that the idea of centralizing the internet into a single US corporation feels off. Not to mention the various scandals that have surrounded them. So I was open to alternatives.
Bunny.net
Bunny.net (affiliate link because why not, raw link here) is a Slovenian (EU) company that is building up a lot of momentum. Their CDN-related services rival Cloudflare already, and although their PoP network is smaller than Cloudflare’s, they score highly on performance and speed across the globe. It’s a genuinely competitive alternative to Cloudflare.
It has the additional benefit of being a European company, and I like the idea of growing and supporting the European tech scene.
What I was moving away from
I’ve been using various different services, but focusing on this blog, the first thing was Cloudflare as the registrar for the domain name. I did some research on alternative registrars, but I just didn’t find any good European options. The closest I found was INWX, but their lack of free WHOIS Privacy made them a non-option. I ended up with Porkbun. They run on Cloudflare infrastructure, but they have better support. So the remaining thing Cloudflare was doing for me was the “Orange Cloud”: automatic caching, origin hiding, and optional protection features.
So that’s what we’re moving over! I’m gonna walk you through how to set up the bunny.net CDN for your website, with some sensible defaults.
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