| ▲ | dizhn 3 hours ago |
| It sounds like they made it free for customers for up to 500 domains. It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? >So, we’ve eliminated DNS query fees entirely. > Bunny DNS no longer charges for DNS queries and includes free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains per account. There are no query limits, no per-request billing, and no critical features hidden behind enterprise plans. (Yes, that includes smart records and health monitoring too.) >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. Oh..kayy. |
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| ▲ | bcye 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They were charging for nameserver hosting. The main draw are some advanced programmatic features for (geo) routing, scripting, etc. |
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| ▲ | Havoc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The one dollar thing isn’t as bad in practice as it sounds since it covers everything. Basically invoice minimum across everything so if you’re using the platform in any meaningful way it’s a non issue |
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| ▲ | 1dom an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | dizhn an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | Havoc 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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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| ▲ | summarity 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Their DNS is also scriptable, it’s not just a name server |
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| ▲ | KingOfCoders 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past. |
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| ▲ | Scaled 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free? Even barely used domains were getting tons of queries. And I only need the fancy failover feature on a couple domains, though it is nice for those for sure. Anyway with this I don't have to worry about it anymore, so thanks Bunny! | |
| ▲ | dizhn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | First time I am hearing of paying for DNS resolution but I am just a civilian. | | | |
| ▲ | khurs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare) | | |
| ▲ | chaz6 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account. | | |
| ▲ | dizhn an hour ago | parent [-] | | You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked. |
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| ▲ | 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | thepasch 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | something something are the product | | |
| ▲ | khurs 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal. | | |
| ▲ | trick-or-treat 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really. |
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| ▲ | rozenmd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ | | |
| ▲ | bcye 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (: |
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