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  cschmatzler
  fwiw, Bunny are the people that announced S3 compatibility for their object storage in Q2 2022 [1]> We can’t wait to have this available as a preview later in Q2 and truly make global storage a breeze, so keep an eye out!then apologised for missing that in September 2023 [2]> We initially announced that we were working on S3 support for Bunny Storage all the way back in 2022. Today, as 2023 is slowly coming to an end, many of our customers continue to follow our blog, hoping for good news about the release.changing the roadmap to early 2024 [2]> But we are working aggressively toward shipping S3 compatibility in early 2024.That same post also has the beautiful "At bunny.net, we value transparency." quote. It's early 2026, and they're literally ignoring my support requests asking about what the roadmap is looking like for this now.So, do not trust their product or leadership at all.[1] https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-edge-storage-sftp-support... [2] https://bunny.net/blog/whats-happening-with-s3-compatibility...
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  kawsper
  I've been struggling with Bunny the last couple of days.Their log delivery api is delayed by over 3 days, despite them promising only "up to 5 minutes delay" in their docs: https://docs.bunny.net/cdn/loggingWhy isn't it on the status page you might ask? Oh, that's because a delay is not "critical", but I fear I am losing loglines now, their retention is 3 days.It's an interesting strategy for them, because it doesn't inspire confidence in me about their other offerings. When they can't reliably operate a log delivery API or be transparent about issues, it's hard to trust them with something as critical as a database.
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  grugdev42
  Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS?Any Linux distro can have MySQL or Postgres installed in less than five minutes and works out of the boxEven a single core VPS can handle lots of queries per second (assuming the tables are indexed properly and the queries aren't trash)There are mature open source backup solutions which don't require DB downtime (also available in most package managers)It's trivial to tune a DB using .conf files (there are even scripts that autotune for you!!!)Your VPS provider will allow you to configure encryption at rest, firewall rules, and whole disk snapshots as wellAnd neither MySQL or Postgres ever seem to go down, they're super reliable and stablePlus you have very stable costs each month
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  drmajormccheese
  This is not a database of bunnies
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  badlibrarian
  Adding my voice to the chorus here: they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point. No qualms with the CDN; it's a sweet spot among providers. But their other offerings have been frustrating me for years now.
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  bvogelzang
  Pricing Details: While in public preview, Bunny Database is free. When idle, Bunny Database only incurs storage costs. One primary region is charged continuously, while read replicas only add storage costs when serving traffic (metered by the hour). Reads - $0.30 per billion rows Writes - $0.30 per million rows Storage - $0.10 per GB per active region (monthly)
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  Retr0id
  The "Wait, what does “SQLite-compatible” actually mean?" subheading didn't answer my question to be honest. They're using (forked) libSQL under the hood - ok, cool. But how do I interface with it?They don't elaborate, but apparently libSQL has an HTTP API called "Hrana": https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/main/docs/HRANA... - if that's what they're exposing, wouldn't it make more sense to call it libSQL-compatible or something?
• breakingcups
  I wonder if they're stretching themselves too thin? Their CDN product is rock solid IME and so is their video streaming, but they've been adding a lot more "developer-platform" type products, seemingly trying to catch up to CF, and I'm not sure I'll ever trust it enough in terms of staying-power to ever commit to the vendor lock-in there. (I wouldn't with Cloudflare either, to be fair)
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  pier25
  Pretty cool. I’ve been using Bunny as a Cloudflare replacement for a couple of years and my experience has been flawless.
• VoxPelli
  Main positive with bunny.net:Its European rather than from USA so its less dependent on that orange guy in that white/golden house
• Havoc
  Will give this a spin. They’re one of the few cloud-y providers that has both prepayment and a rate limiter that doesn’t charge for rate limit exceeds (still blows my mind that providers charge for blocks).
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  mchusma
  I have used multiple s3 and cdn replacements, and bunny is my favorite. Excited to see a database product in the mix.
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  koakuma-chan
  Why couldn't they just use SQLite, and not libSQL?
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  deepsun
  Reminds me of how we got scarred by "parse.com" -- it was also a promising database, and our customer insisted on it, but after lengthy development and just before our project release turned out that they are shutting down and noone works on it anymore. Like literally their support said "uhm sorry folks, we're all hired by Facebook, no one is working on parse.com anymore".
• turtlebits
  FYI, this is based on libSQL which has pretty poor driver support (Python still experimental).
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  kerblang
  Is this supposed to be a distributed DB that auto-synchronizes instances? Documentation doesn't seem to say anything about that.If not, it seems like it would be quite a bit of work to implement the synchronization... and I don't understand why one would use it otherwise.
• endymion-light
  Looks cool, I need an alternative to my supabase set-up for little web tools, so i'll check it out!
• rawgabbit
  It seems Bunny is competing with Cloudflare. They offer very similar services including CDN, video streaming, databases etc.
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  4star3star
  Why choose this over Cloudflare D1?
• replwoacause
  Is this good for write heavy loads or does it face the same constraints as regular SQLite?
• zackify
  why this over turso or litestream + read replicas?
• ftchd
  we have 3 orange clouds now
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  throwaway894345
  > Not every project needs Postgres, and that’s okay. Sometimes you just want a simple, reliable database that you can spin up quickly and build on, without worrying it’ll hit your wallet like an EC2.Isn't the operational burden of SQLite the main selling point over Postgres (not one I subscribe to, but that's neither here nor there)? If it's managed, why do I care if it's SQLite or Postgres? If anything, I would expect Postgres to be the friendlier option, since you won't have to worry about eventually discovering that you actually need some feature even if you don't need it at the start of your project. Maybe there are projects that implement SQLite on top of Postgres so you can gradually migrate away from SQLite if you need Postgres features eventually?
• postepowanieadm
  Managed sqlite?
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  the__alchemist
  Bun alert!
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  ForHackernews
  This sounds a lot like https://turso.tech/ ? Unless I misunderstand, they're both pitching SQLite-for-the-cloud.
• horatius26
  I thought this would be a database of bunnies. My disappointment cannot be overstated.