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0 pointsDiti3d ago0 comments

I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens.

As far as I know, Bunny products are their own business units with their own goals and feature requests (Bunny Stream, in particular, lacks a lot of features) and the “block all requests after the bill becomes 50 EUR” ONLY exists for Bunny CDN, not for their other products.

The day Bunny starts treating all their products evenly (and listen to requests asking to implement basic features) will be the day I will switch all my nonprofit communities to their services.

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kassner3d ago· 7 in thread

You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance.

AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.

DitiOP3d ago

Where in the terms of service or in the admin UI do you see this information? You can pre-pay, yes, and the CDN service (and ONLY the CDN service) has a setting to stop the billing. But the other services do not seem to have a limit on how much you can get billed.

kassner3d ago

I don't have a credit card on file, I'm not sure how they are going get paid if my balance goes negative.

Also: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000235911-How...

But yes, other services will run until your account is dry, then it gets suspended. You can't set a spend limit on your scripts without it taking down the whole account. You can't do cost optimization, but at least you are protected from going bankrupt.

mhitza3d ago

It's not purely prepaid otherwise I wouldn't be charged into negative (see my other comment in this thread).

kassner3d ago

It’s not like they’re going to put a debt collector after the $0.73 that you’d owe, so I’m not sure what was your point. If you want the services to continue you gotta have some balance. If they allow your account to run below balance I’d say that’s on them.

mhitza3d ago

My point was to correct one claim in your previous comment.

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mmarian3d ago

Problem is, Cloudflare's free tier plan effectively sets the limit to $0.

jedisct13d ago

Exactly!

I once had some pretty serious DoS attack, but fortunately, I didn't had to pay more than what was pre-paid.

dabinat3d ago

I’m not sure which Bunny service you’re referring to specifically but Bunny Shield can mitigate DDOS attacks and block bots.

KomoD3d ago

> I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens.

If it's just some simple website, then LLM/crawlers probably won't get you anywhere near thousands of euros. The CDN costs $0.01 - $0.06 per GB

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You can limit some of their services, like the CDN (which is the most important one in my opinion):

- Download speed limit

- Requests per IP

- Data transfer per IP

- Max connections per IP

And monthly bandwidth limit, which disables the zone if you reach x GB.

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10 comments · 3 top-level

kassner3d ago· 7 in thread

You wouldn’t be charged thousands because the service is pre-paid. Your websites will be suspended once the balance runs out, but you can re-establish them once you add more balance.

AFAIK is the only provider in which you can have functional billing limits and not just alerts that still depend on you reacting on them in time.

DitiOP3d ago

kassner3d ago

I don't have a credit card on file, I'm not sure how they are going get paid if my balance goes negative.

Also: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000235911-How...

mhitza3d ago

It's not purely prepaid otherwise I wouldn't be charged into negative (see my other comment in this thread).

kassner3d ago

mhitza3d ago

My point was to correct one claim in your previous comment.

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mmarian3d ago

Problem is, Cloudflare's free tier plan effectively sets the limit to $0.

jedisct13d ago

Exactly!

I once had some pretty serious DoS attack, but fortunately, I didn't had to pay more than what was pre-paid.

dabinat3d ago

I’m not sure which Bunny service you’re referring to specifically but Bunny Shield can mitigate DDOS attacks and block bots.

KomoD3d ago

> I want to love Bunny. But I am terrified about being suddenly charged thousands of euros if some unexpected traffic from LLM/crawler activity happens.

If it's just some simple website, then LLM/crawlers probably won't get you anywhere near thousands of euros. The CDN costs $0.01 - $0.06 per GB

...

You can limit some of their services, like the CDN (which is the most important one in my opinion):

- Download speed limit

- Requests per IP

- Data transfer per IP

- Max connections per IP

And monthly bandwidth limit, which disables the zone if you reach x GB.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse