April 7, 2026
Hare today, cloud tomorrow
Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Cloudflare breakup sparks EU pride, $1 drama, and a Bunny stampede
TLDR: A blogger ditched Cloudflare for EU-based Bunny.net, citing centralization worries and solid performance. Comments split between cheering EU alternatives and 'Magic Containers,' grumbling over Bunny’s €1 minimum and missing freebies, and defending Cloudflare’s free DNS and reliability—making this a wallet-vs-values showdown
One blogger dumped Cloudflare for bunny.net, and the comments turned into a full-on custody battle for the internet. Fans of the EU-based upstart cheered the move as a stand against Big U.S. Gatekeepers, while skeptics clutched their wallets and shouted “but the free stuff!” In simple terms: both are services that speed up websites (a CDN), but Bunny has a $1/month minimum, and Cloudflare’s famous freebies still have people hooked.
The loudest applause? EU pride and Bunny’s performance glow-up. One fan gushed about Bunny’s “Magic Containers,” calling them cheap, global, and fast—translation: tiny apps that scale worldwide for pocket change. Another took a playful political swing with “make Europe great again,” and the thread erupted into flag-waving memes. But critics fired back: hobbyists miss Cloudflare’s zero-cost safety net, grumble about paying €1 plus tax, and nitpick rough edges like cache purges and specialty domain tricks (think: letting your main address point to another service) that Cloudflare handles for free.
Meanwhile, the big-picture drama brewed: Is Cloudflare a risky single point of failure, or is everyone underestimating the chaos of many smaller providers? One commenter cautioned that decentralizing can mean more frequent mini-outages. Verdict? It’s values vs. value—EU vibes and independence versus Cloudflare’s irresistible free candy and convenience.
Key Points
- •The author migrated a blog’s CDN and related functions from Cloudflare to bunny.net due to concerns about dependency and internet centralization.
- •bunny.net is presented as a competitive Slovenian EU-based CDN with strong global performance despite a smaller PoP network.
- •Cloudflare previously served as the domain registrar and provided “Orange Cloud” caching and protection; the registrar was switched to Porkbun.
- •INWX was considered as a registrar but rejected because it lacks free WHOIS privacy; Porkbun was chosen even though it uses Cloudflare infrastructure.
- •The article provides step-by-step instructions: set up a bunny.net account with trial credits, create and configure a pull zone (Origin URL, Host header when needed, Standard tier, pricing zones), and update DNS to route traffic through the CDN.