{"slug": "bunny-net", "name": "Bunny.net", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "European content delivery network offering CDN, DNS, storage, video streaming and edge compute services.", "recommenders": 29, "commenters": 35, "warners": 2, "score": 24.736, "rising": -1.85, "first": "2025-11-19", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "HN commenters recommend it as a low-cost CDN, often as a European alternative to Cloudflare, for static sites, DNS, and image and video delivery.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 30, "neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "spark": [2, 2, 4, 3, 0, 8, 0, 5, 0, 1, 4, 1], "listed": true, "loved": ["Low cost", "Cloudflare alternative"], "caveat": "Feature gaps", "short_quote": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.", "icon": true, "domain": "bunny.net", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://bunny.net", "pricing": "paid", "aliases": ["Bunny.net", "bunny.net", "Bunny CDN", "BunnyCDN", "Bunny"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters recommend it as a low-cost CDN", "cites": [{"id": 800482802, "item_id": 50030175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030175", "by": "PaywallBuster", "date": "2026-10-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.", "excerpt": "Show HN: SV Premium \u2013 Compare infrastructure prices at your actual usage Hi HN, I built https://svpremium.dev after two migrations cut our infrastructure bills far more than I expected. DNS: ~$150K \u2192 ~$5K/year. We\u2019d used NS1 for years, initially for advanced features like filter chains. As we moved our infrastructure to anycast, we ended up mostly using basic DNS and geo routing. But we were still on an annual, prepa", "context": "", "use_case": "image delivery/CDN", "switched_from": "imgix", "story": "Show HN: The safe-choice tax \u2013 what the vendor nobody gets fired for costs"}, {"id": 778518432, "item_id": 48657402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657402", "by": "KingOfCoders", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing", "excerpt": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting static websites, CDN, DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 762981328, "item_id": 47686333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686333", "by": "bedatadriven", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs.", "excerpt": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs. Exactly what we needed with none of the upselling B.S.", "context": "", "use_case": "video hosting", "switched_from": "Wistia", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}]}, {"text": ", often as a European alternative to Cloudflare,", "cites": [{"id": 746853072, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "European CDN and storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}, {"id": 778526608, "item_id": 48657913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657913", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.", "excerpt": "It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc. I deploy my website using their", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting website, CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 793135136, "item_id": 49570946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570946", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "excerpt": "No, I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN / hosting", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?"}]}, {"text": " for static sites, DNS, and image and video delivery.", "cites": [{"id": 748941248, "item_id": 46808828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808828", "by": "Stoo", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "excerpt": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "context": "", "use_case": "static site hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 762812448, "item_id": 47675778, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675778", "by": "kugelblitz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS.", "excerpt": "I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS. I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides \"free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now\". I'd rather have a low fee now, a change from $2 to $3 is more likely and that's fine for me. But from free to not free is risky for me. I also like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762823664, "item_id": 47676479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676479", "by": "sassymuffinz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.", "excerpt": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it. They recently upgraded the player for streaming media, we use in one instance for tutorial videos, that apparently adds some missing accessibility features. All we needed to do was adjust the embed URL structure we were using and all set.", "context": "", "use_case": "image serving and video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}]}, {"text": " The most common caveat is a narrower feature set than Cloudflare's, such as no Tunnel equivalent or IPv4 routing to IPv6-only origins", "cites": [{"id": 793729600, "item_id": 49608100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608100", "by": "frevib", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year.", "excerpt": "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\u2019t miss Cloudflare one bit. [1] https://github.com/fatedier/frp", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and edge services", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"}, {"id": 753370594, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins.", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 781073153, "item_id": 48817072, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817072", "by": "LucaSiviero", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also use Bunny.net for my products, but the services are still limited", "excerpt": "As an Italian solo-founder, I have to admit that the US vendor dependency is really strong, but when you look at what you need to build a serious product, what can you actually use from European vendors that is even close to US products? Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do? Not to talk about Cloud and Edge Computing vendors: GCP, AWS, Cloudflare... does anyone even get clos", "context": "Italian solo-founder", "use_case": "CDN / edge services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}]}, {"text": ", and some complain about prepaid-credit billing and its handling of a security incident.", "cites": [{"id": 778541216, "item_id": 48658826, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658826", "by": "mhitza", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support.", "excerpt": "They are competitive price wise, but less competent human wise. Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support. I've never had this experience with an US company (except the US giants) where support basically gives me an \"it is what it is\". The most recent that really put the cherry on top. I was planning on dropping them when running out of prepaid credits. ALL SaaS software I've used before that ha", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting/CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778582896, "item_id": 48661431, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661431", "by": "mhitza", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It doesn't help that they constantly move things around in their website with no clear thought.", "excerpt": "Maybe an acknowledgement that is a limitation that they understand and it would be something they could change in the future. Maybe showing understanding that it is surprising that a credit based system goes into negative. I don't know, this was not the first time I got surprised by their system. Before that I preloaded my account for a couple of credits (+vat). Then they switched to monthly invoicing (+vat for my ex", "context": "", "use_case": "DNS/CDN hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 804975104, "item_id": 50310944, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310944", "by": "evan_a_a", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This speaks to them having a poor or non-existent incident response plan.", "excerpt": "> After receiving the alert from the affected provider, our engineering team took immediate action. Within 20 minutes, we stopped routing traffic through the server. We then reviewed and preserved the relevant security logs for investigation, securely wiped the server, and revoked its access to our other systems. The affected server has been permanently removed from our infrastructure. When responding to a potential ", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny CDN Security Incident"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Low cost", "summary": "Users report large cost cuts after switching and very low bills for small sites.", "quotes": [{"id": 800482802, "item_id": 50030175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030175", "by": "PaywallBuster", "date": "2026-10-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.", "excerpt": "Show HN: SV Premium \u2013 Compare infrastructure prices at your actual usage Hi HN, I built https://svpremium.dev after two migrations cut our infrastructure bills far more than I expected. DNS: ~$150K \u2192 ~$5K/year. We\u2019d used NS1 for years, initially for advanced features like filter chains. As we moved our infrastructure to anycast, we ended up mostly using basic DNS and geo routing. But we were still on an annual, prepa", "context": "", "use_case": "image delivery/CDN", "switched_from": "imgix", "story": "Show HN: The safe-choice tax \u2013 what the vendor nobody gets fired for costs"}, {"id": 762981328, "item_id": 47686333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686333", "by": "bedatadriven", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs.", "excerpt": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs. Exactly what we needed with none of the upselling B.S.", "context": "", "use_case": "video hosting", "switched_from": "Wistia", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 778518432, "item_id": 48657402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657402", "by": "KingOfCoders", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing", "excerpt": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting static websites, CDN, DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}]}, {"label": "Cloudflare alternative", "summary": "Many moved from Cloudflare or suggest Bunny as a European, independent alternative.", "quotes": [{"id": 793135136, "item_id": 49570946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570946", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "excerpt": "No, I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN / hosting", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?"}, {"id": 778526608, "item_id": 48657913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657913", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.", "excerpt": "It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc. I deploy my website using their", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting website, CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 746853072, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "European CDN and storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}]}, {"label": "Media delivery", "summary": "Praised for image serving, video streaming and signed URLs.", "quotes": [{"id": 762823664, "item_id": 47676479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676479", "by": "sassymuffinz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.", "excerpt": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it. They recently upgraded the player for streaming media, we use in one instance for tutorial videos, that apparently adds some missing accessibility features. All we needed to do was adjust the embed URL structure we were using and all set.", "context": "", "use_case": "image serving and video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 764872448, "item_id": 47804528, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804528", "by": "strimoza", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention", "excerpt": "Curious how they handled it at the CDN level. I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention, but a full DDoS is a different beast entirely.", "context": "", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"}, {"id": 750565024, "item_id": 46910314, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910314", "by": "fuckinpuppers", "date": "2026-02-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing.", "excerpt": "I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing. Did realtime image branding with signed urls and video delivery and it wasn\u2019t even as spendy as I thought, it was like fractions of a penny when I thought it\u2019d be a couple pennies\u2026 their api was easy to use. S3 compatible storage was an exciting thing to look forward to. But some of their stuff off the shelf was cost effective and worked well", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and video delivery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny Database"}]}, {"label": "Reliability", "summary": "Users report no downtime and no issues across multiple projects.", "quotes": [{"id": 793766736, "item_id": 49610421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610421", "by": "shintoist", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.", "excerpt": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad. It has some rough edges, but it does what it's supposed to and I haven't experienced any downtime. The main \"gotcha\" is that there's no free plan, it's a minimum of $1 per month, you pay for usage. In practice it's very hard to spend more than a dollar in a month.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"}, {"id": 762823664, "item_id": 47676479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676479", "by": "sassymuffinz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.", "excerpt": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it. They recently upgraded the player for streaming media, we use in one instance for tutorial videos, that apparently adds some missing accessibility features. All we needed to do was adjust the embed URL structure we were using and all set.", "context": "", "use_case": "image serving and video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 778526608, "item_id": 48657913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657913", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.", "excerpt": "It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc. I deploy my website using their", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting website, CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}]}, {"label": "Static site hosting", "summary": "Works well for hosting static sites, including API-driven deploys from CI.", "quotes": [{"id": 748941248, "item_id": 46808828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808828", "by": "Stoo", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "excerpt": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "context": "", "use_case": "static site hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 778518432, "item_id": 48657402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657402", "by": "KingOfCoders", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing", "excerpt": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting static websites, CDN, DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778526608, "item_id": 48657913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657913", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.", "excerpt": "It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc. I deploy my website using their", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting website, CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}]}, {"label": "Support", "summary": "Some users call support a key reason to choose Bunny over Cloudflare's free tier.", "quotes": [{"id": 762806192, "item_id": 47675387, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675387", "by": "ben8bit", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use them for a couple of things - very happy.", "excerpt": "We use them for a couple of things - very happy. I think probably the best reason (other than service robustness): support. CloudFlare is great until it's not, and you aren't paying $$$ for enterprise support. This is probably one of the most underrated reasons to switch to any lesser known (but still rock solid) infra services. UpCloud too - great support!", "context": "", "use_case": "infrastructure services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 753392976, "item_id": 47087061, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087061", "by": "sreekanth850", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They have awesome community and support is top-notch.", "excerpt": "We use bunny.net dns for Geo DNS with their dns based load balancing for my websocket infra. They have awesome community and support is top-notch. Getting a response from Cloudflare community is like taking a lottery if you are free plan.", "context": "runs websocket infrastructure", "use_case": "Geo DNS and load balancing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 778555216, "item_id": 48659701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659701", "by": "jcalabro", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience!", "excerpt": "We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience! Team is great, service is great, price is great.", "context": "works at Bluesky", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Feature gaps", "summary": "Offers fewer services than Cloudflare, lacking Tunnel and IPv4 routing to IPv6-only origins.", "quotes": [{"id": 793729600, "item_id": 49608100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608100", "by": "frevib", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year.", "excerpt": "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\u2019t miss Cloudflare one bit. 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Then they switched to monthly invoicing (+vat for my ex", "context": "", "use_case": "DNS/CDN hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}]}, {"label": "No free plan", "summary": "There is a $1 monthly minimum, and the service has some rough edges.", "quotes": [{"id": 793766736, "item_id": 49610421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610421", "by": "shintoist", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.", "excerpt": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad. It has some rough edges, but it does what it's supposed to and I haven't experienced any downtime. The main \"gotcha\" is that there's no free plan, it's a minimum of $1 per month, you pay for usage. 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Within 20 minutes, we stopped routing traffic through the server. We then reviewed and preserved the relevant security logs for investigation, securely wiped the server, and revoked its access to our other systems. The affected server has been permanently removed from our infrastructure. When responding to a potential ", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny CDN Security Incident"}, {"id": 800482802, "item_id": 50030175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030175", "by": "PaywallBuster", "date": "2026-10-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.", "excerpt": "Show HN: SV Premium \u2013 Compare infrastructure prices at your actual usage Hi HN, I built https://svpremium.dev after two migrations cut our infrastructure bills far more than I expected. DNS: ~$150K \u2192 ~$5K/year. We\u2019d used NS1 for years, initially for advanced features like filter chains. As we moved our infrastructure to anycast, we ended up mostly using basic DNS and geo routing. But we were still on an annual, prepa", "context": "", "use_case": "image delivery/CDN", "switched_from": "imgix", "story": "Show HN: The safe-choice tax \u2013 what the vendor nobody gets fired for costs"}, {"id": 793766736, "item_id": 49610421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610421", "by": "shintoist", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.", "excerpt": "I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad. It has some rough edges, but it does what it's supposed to and I haven't experienced any downtime. The main \"gotcha\" is that there's no free plan, it's a minimum of $1 per month, you pay for usage. In practice it's very hard to spend more than a dollar in a month.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"}, {"id": 793729600, "item_id": 49608100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608100", "by": "frevib", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year.", "excerpt": "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\u2019t miss Cloudflare one bit. [1] https://github.com/fatedier/frp", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and edge services", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"}, {"id": 793135136, "item_id": 49570946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570946", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "excerpt": "No, I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN / hosting", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?"}, {"id": 793051456, "item_id": 49565716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565716", "by": "8by3", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use bunny.net for CDN which also has some basic protections.", "excerpt": "I refuse to give my data, to yet another company trying to control and centralize the internet. For their \"Free\" service. Instead, I pay money to run a VM with DDOS protection on vultr, to guard my infrastructure I run on prem. Use Acme.sh / lets encrypt for certs. Use bunny.net for CDN which also has some basic protections.", "context": "runs on-prem infrastructure", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?"}, {"id": 786936320, "item_id": 49183520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183520", "by": "Lucasoato", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Also check out Bunny.net.", "excerpt": "No, you\u2019re not too paranoid. It has already proven both in the software and hardware world what vendor lock-in can lead to. Also check out Bunny.net.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloudflare alternative to avoid lock-in", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"}, {"id": 781073153, "item_id": 48817072, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817072", "by": "LucaSiviero", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also use Bunny.net for my products, but the services are still limited", "excerpt": "As an Italian solo-founder, I have to admit that the US vendor dependency is really strong, but when you look at what you need to build a serious product, what can you actually use from European vendors that is even close to US products? Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do? Not to talk about Cloud and Edge Computing vendors: GCP, AWS, Cloudflare... does anyone even get clos", "context": "Italian solo-founder", "use_case": "CDN / edge services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 778761376, "item_id": 48672586, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672586", "by": "x______________", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Another mention of bunny [0] gives them good exposure", "excerpt": "Very cool update overall, great work! > It was clear that something had to change. Bunny When this issue was brought up in one of our chats, a former Dolphin developer suggested that we should give Bunny a try. Another mention of bunny [0] gives them good exposure, and not just because they're an European company! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657030", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN / hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606"}, {"id": 778582896, "item_id": 48661431, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661431", "by": "mhitza", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It doesn't help that they constantly move things around in their website with no clear thought.", "excerpt": "Maybe an acknowledgement that is a limitation that they understand and it would be something they could change in the future. Maybe showing understanding that it is surprising that a credit based system goes into negative. I don't know, this was not the first time I got surprised by their system. Before that I preloaded my account for a couple of credits (+vat). Then they switched to monthly invoicing (+vat for my ex", "context": "", "use_case": "DNS/CDN hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778555216, "item_id": 48659701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659701", "by": "jcalabro", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience!", "excerpt": "We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience! Team is great, service is great, price is great.", "context": "works at Bluesky", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778541216, "item_id": 48658826, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658826", "by": "mhitza", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support.", "excerpt": "They are competitive price wise, but less competent human wise. Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support. I've never had this experience with an US company (except the US giants) where support basically gives me an \"it is what it is\". The most recent that really put the cherry on top. I was planning on dropping them when running out of prepaid credits. ALL SaaS software I've used before that ha", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting/CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778526608, "item_id": 48657913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657913", "by": "kenanfyi", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.", "excerpt": "It's nothing new to make a DNS service free, but still kudos to Bunny. I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far. They don't have all that fancy things that CF has, but I guess it's also not their target. It's a great and extremely fast CDN that makes it easy to host many kind of websites. They also have things like Edge Rules, WAF, Cache Control etc. I deploy my website using their", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting website, CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778520912, "item_id": 48657557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657557", "by": "Lucasoato", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service.", "excerpt": "Kudos to the BunnyNet team! I've always looked for a EU based alternative to Cloudflare; not because I didn't like them, I still support Cloudflare and they're a great company, but pushing for and testing EU services is important particularly in the light of recent developments in EU-US geopolitics. The problem is that many European companies aren't as competitive as their US counterpart. Consider Hetzner as an examp", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN / DNS for small projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778518432, "item_id": 48657402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657402", "by": "KingOfCoders", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing", "excerpt": "I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing (+ CDN, DNS, ...).", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting static websites, CDN, DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 775627300, "item_id": 48476706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476706", "by": "faangguyindia", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "BunnyCDN in front", "excerpt": "Most of my apps are now simply HTMX + Go + SQLite. I've found it's enough for most projects. One of my sites is image heavy and serves 10 TB of traffic per month. For this, I use the following setup: 1. S3 (I wanted reliable data storage) 2. In front of it, I have Cloudflare (with Tiered Cache enabled, which makes POPs prefer pulling from Cloudflare rather than the origin). I've set rules to cache everything on both ", "context": "runs an image-heavy site serving 10 TB/month", "use_case": "CDN for image traffic", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"}, {"id": 772677057, "item_id": 48292316, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292316", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "you're not seeing Bunny CDN or Fastly being blocked in the same way as Cloudflare, as they actually respond to legal requests", "excerpt": "> Why does the end justify the means here? Because society at large has to be pragmatic, you and I aren't the only people living here, and generally we (Spaniards) all agree that laws are generally made to be followed, in most instances, hence if a judge/the courts order something, we generally feel like that should be followed. You don't like it? Fight it legally, like the system is setup to work. > The blocks clear", "context": "Spain resident, Vodafone customer", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"}, {"id": 764872448, "item_id": 47804528, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804528", "by": "strimoza", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention", "excerpt": "Curious how they handled it at the CDN level. I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention, but a full DDoS is a different beast entirely.", "context": "", "use_case": "video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"}, {"id": 763393024, "item_id": 47712064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712064", "by": "sergiotapia", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a very grateful bunnycdn customer. they are great, lovely UX and great performance and price.", "excerpt": "I'm a very grateful bunnycdn customer. they are great, lovely UX and great performance and price. we use them to store our image files and other documents.", "context": "BunnyCDN customer", "use_case": "storing image files and documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"}, {"id": 763386833, "item_id": 47711677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711677", "by": "reddalo", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I had considered BunnyCDN, but after this I'm not so sure anymore.", "excerpt": "That's scary. I'm in the process of moving all of my services to Europe, and I had considered BunnyCDN, but after this I'm not so sure anymore. I also tried Hetzner Object Storage. I love Hetzner, they're great, except for their Object Storage service, which is completely unreliable (errors, slowness, etc.). I'm surprised that Hetzner still hasn't retired that product until it's properly fixed. My last chance is with", "context": "moving services to Europe", "use_case": "CDN / storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"}, {"id": 762981328, "item_id": 47686333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686333", "by": "bedatadriven", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs.", "excerpt": "We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs. Exactly what we needed with none of the upselling B.S.", "context": "", "use_case": "video hosting", "switched_from": "Wistia", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762848816, "item_id": 47678051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678051", "by": "stickfigure", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Bunny is by far the cheapest and that ended up being the mature solution", "excerpt": "This isn't an either/or, you can use features from both and you have to compare carefully. I used to do a lot of image manipulation and had pluggable implementations for imgix, cloudflare images, and bunny. Bunny is by far the cheapest and that ended up being the mature solution (plus some custom processing). But for other caching, R2, workers, etc CF is great.", "context": "", "use_case": "image manipulation and delivery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762843584, "item_id": 47677724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677724", "by": "k9294", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Highly recommend their Edge Containers product, super simple and has nice primitives to deploy globally", "excerpt": "We at ottex.ai use bunny.net to deploy globally an openrouter like speach-to-text API (5 continents, 26 locations, idle cost 3$). Highly recommend their Edge Containers product, super simple and has nice primitives to deploy globally for a low latency workloads. We connect all containers to one redis pubsub server to push important events like user billing overages, top-ups etc. Super simple, very fast, one config to", "context": "runs ottex.ai", "use_case": "global low-latency speech-to-text API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762823664, "item_id": 47676479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676479", "by": "sassymuffinz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.", "excerpt": "I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it. They recently upgraded the player for streaming media, we use in one instance for tutorial videos, that apparently adds some missing accessibility features. All we needed to do was adjust the embed URL structure we were using and all set.", "context": "", "use_case": "image serving and video streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762812448, "item_id": 47675778, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675778", "by": "kugelblitz", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS.", "excerpt": "I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS. I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides \"free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now\". I'd rather have a low fee now, a change from $2 to $3 is more likely and that's fine for me. But from free to not free is risky for me. I also like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and DNS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 762806192, "item_id": 47675387, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675387", "by": "ben8bit", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use them for a couple of things - very happy.", "excerpt": "We use them for a couple of things - very happy. I think probably the best reason (other than service robustness): support. CloudFlare is great until it's not, and you aren't paying $$$ for enterprise support. This is probably one of the most underrated reasons to switch to any lesser known (but still rock solid) infra services. UpCloud too - great support!", "context": "", "use_case": "infrastructure services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"}, {"id": 753392976, "item_id": 47087061, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087061", "by": "sreekanth850", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They have awesome community and support is top-notch.", "excerpt": "We use bunny.net dns for Geo DNS with their dns based load balancing for my websocket infra. They have awesome community and support is top-notch. Getting a response from Cloudflare community is like taking a lottery if you are free plan.", "context": "runs websocket infrastructure", "use_case": "Geo DNS and load balancing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 753370594, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins.", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 750565024, "item_id": 46910314, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910314", "by": "fuckinpuppers", "date": "2026-02-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing.", "excerpt": "I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing. Did realtime image branding with signed urls and video delivery and it wasn\u2019t even as spendy as I thought, it was like fractions of a penny when I thought it\u2019d be a couple pennies\u2026 their api was easy to use. S3 compatible storage was an exciting thing to look forward to. But some of their stuff off the shelf was cost effective and worked well", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN and video delivery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bunny Database"}, {"id": 749018544, "item_id": 46813659, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46813659", "by": "gethly", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia", "excerpt": "CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia Hosting - literally gazzilion of choices. CF pages/workers - i don't know what that is.", "context": "", "use_case": "European CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 748941248, "item_id": 46808828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808828", "by": "Stoo", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "excerpt": "I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.", "context": "", "use_case": "static site hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 748551680, "item_id": 46784480, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784480", "by": "peterspath", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "also take a look at https://bunny.net", "excerpt": "also take a look at https://bunny.net", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting/CDN alternative", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 746853072, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "European CDN and storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}, {"id": 742000832, "item_id": 46375052, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375052", "by": "christophilus", "date": "2025-12-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "served via BunnyCDN. It worked great, and I had total control of everything.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve used Netcup to run an ffmpeg transcoding fleet, stored in Wasabi, served via BunnyCDN. It worked great, and I had total control of everything. You might also check out Bunny\u2019s video services which didn\u2019t exist when I built out my solution.", "context": "built an ffmpeg transcoding fleet", "use_case": "video serving CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?"}, {"id": 738721617, "item_id": 46170101, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170101", "by": "3rube", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options", "excerpt": "Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloudflare alternative", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?"}, {"id": 737309872, "item_id": 46081867, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081867", "by": "victorbjorklund", "date": "2025-11-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.", "excerpt": "Guess it does not count as cloud but I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}, {"id": 735717440, "item_id": 45982340, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982340", "by": "colesantiago", "date": "2025-11-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yet it is an available alternative to Cloudflare that is not on Wall Street", "excerpt": "> Bunny has raised money from VC which indicates it\u2019s going the \u201cWall Street\u201d path. Yet it is an available alternative to Cloudflare that is not on Wall Street (a public company). If you want to do this 100% yourself there is Apache Traffic Control. https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol > Anubis is a bot firewall not a CDN. For now. If we support alternatives they can grow into an open source CDN.", "context": "", "use_case": "CDN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Questions for Cloudflare"}]}