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

I tried them with our small company. They seem ... young. Support on discord is not something I can sell to our owners. 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. Their attitude does not inspire confidence and for that reason we scrapped them as an option. Never actually found a good European option besides them, which is sad.

	▲	kosinus 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Like, the bad bots you see when they get an https cert issued and it becomes visible in the public logs, or something else? Agree discord sucks.

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tao_oat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're fine for a CDN but overall their offering surprisingly immature IME. The devx for their hosted scripts/database just isn't there, and e.g. they only allow one global API key with full permissions, etc.

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frevib 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year. For edge services they have all the important thing like ddos protection and edge scripting. There is no replacement for Cloudflare Tunnel, but frp [1] is a good alternative.

We don’t miss Cloudflare one bit.

[1] https://github.com/fatedier/frp

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s_dev 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://eualternative.eu/categories/cdn/

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jarym an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Like bunny.net - its still tiny compared to CF but hopefully they will grow and won't adopt the crappier bits of CF.

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CommanderData an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They don't have Cloudflare Tunnels which is almost too good to pass up.

I don't particularly understand how CF makes money on it, with the many high traffic sites I have used that I know don't pay CF a dime. Tunnels adds so much more overhead in compute on both ends more than their normal CDN/proxy would.

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ramon156 an hour ago | parent [-]

big corps = big money. they dont make money from your $5/mth static site, its practically free when you're at CF scale

	▲	CommanderData an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I should have referenced what I was thinking about: https://newtrackon.com/ There's at least 10 HTTP trackers using CF, using statistics from other open trackers on the low end some of them process 300-500 MILLION requests every day - uncached, some exceed a billion reqs/day. That's a crap load of transfer and compute to process those tiny network connections. As someone that's run a Tunnel on a much lesser site still in the millions, the daemon uses a sizeable amount of CPU and I can't see any reason why it's not the same on the other end.