Bunny.net
European content delivery network offering CDN, DNS, storage, video streaming and edge compute services.
HN commenters recommend it as a low-cost CDN123, often as a European alternative to Cloudflare,456 for static sites, DNS, and image and video delivery.789 The most common caveat is a narrower feature set than Cloudflare's, such as no Tunnel equivalent or IPv4 routing to IPv6-only origins101112, and some complain about prepaid-credit billing and its handling of a security incident.131415
Why people recommend it
Low cost · 3
Users report large cost cuts after switching and very low bills for small sites.
“Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.”
“We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs.”
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“I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing”
Cloudflare alternative · 3
Many moved from Cloudflare or suggest Bunny as a European, independent alternative.
“I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.”
“I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.”
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“I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European”
Media delivery · 3
Praised for image serving, video streaming and signed URLs.
“I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.”
“I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention”
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“I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing.”
Reliability · 3
Users report no downtime and no issues across multiple projects.
“I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.”
“I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.”
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“I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.”
Static site hosting · 3
Works well for hosting static sites, including API-driven deploys from CI.
“I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.”
“I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing”
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“I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.”
Support · 3
Some users call support a key reason to choose Bunny over Cloudflare's free tier.
“We use them for a couple of things - very happy.”
“They have awesome community and support is top-notch.”
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“We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience!”
Caveats and dissent
Feature gaps · 3
Offers fewer services than Cloudflare, lacking Tunnel and IPv4 routing to IPv6-only origins.
“We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year.”
“I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins.”
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“I also use Bunny.net for my products, but the services are still limited”
Credit billing · 2
Prepaid credits can go negative without notice, and one user reports a double VAT charge.
“Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support.”
“It doesn't help that they constantly move things around in their website with no clear thought.”
No free plan · 1
There is a $1 monthly minimum, and the service has some rough edges.
“I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.”
Support quality · 1
One user found support dismissive about billing problems.
“Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support.”
Incident response · 1
One commenter criticized wiping a compromised server instead of preserving it for investigation.
“This speaks to them having a poor or non-existent incident response plan.”
Dashboard changes · 1
One user says the website layout changes often without clear reasoning.
“It doesn't help that they constantly move things around in their website with no clear thought.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself 6 mentions
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net 6 mentions
- Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting 3 mentions
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks? 2 mentions
- BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months 2 mentions
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All comments 37
“This speaks to them having a poor or non-existent incident response plan.”
“Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.”
“I've been using bunny.net for a while and it's not bad.”
“We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year.”
“I migrated nearly everything away from Cloudflare and over to Bunny instead.”
“Use bunny.net for CDN which also has some basic protections.”
“Also check out Bunny.net.”
“I also use Bunny.net for my products, but the services are still limited”
“Another mention of bunny [0] gives them good exposure”
“It doesn't help that they constantly move things around in their website with no clear thought.”
“We use bunny as our CDN provider at Bluesky, and I have had a very positive experience!”
“Their lack of user care shows when you start talking to support.”
“I moved to Bunny CDN couple of months ago from CF and it's been great so far.”
“I'm choosing it because it's a good company that is providing a good service.”
“I love bunny so much - I host 10+ (Hugo) websites there and I pay basically nothing”
“BunnyCDN in front”
“you're not seeing Bunny CDN or Fastly being blocked in the same way as Cloudflare, as they actually respond to legal requests”
“I use Bunny CDN for video streaming on my project and signed URLs help a lot for abuse prevention”
“I'm a very grateful bunnycdn customer. they are great, lovely UX and great performance and price.”
“I had considered BunnyCDN, but after this I'm not so sure anymore.”
“We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs.”
“Bunny is by far the cheapest and that ended up being the mature solution”
“Highly recommend their Edge Containers product, super simple and has nice primitives to deploy globally”
“I use bunny as an image serving and video streaming across multiple projects and it is excellent, never had an issue with it.”
“I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS.”
“We use them for a couple of things - very happy.”
“They have awesome community and support is top-notch.”
“I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins.”
“I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing.”
“CDN - Bunny CDN is from Slovenia”
“I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.”
“also take a look at https://bunny.net”
“I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European”
“served via BunnyCDN. It worked great, and I had total control of everything.”
“Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options”
“I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.”
“Yet it is an available alternative to Cloudflare that is not on Wall Street”