Migrating from Cloudflare to bunny.net: Reducing Vendor Lock-in and Infrastructure Risks
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Summary
The author shares their experience migrating their blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net, motivated by concerns about vendor lock-in and single points of failure. While acknowledging Cloudflare's excellent free service and massive infrastructure, the author expresses worries about dependency on a single company that could arbitrarily disable websites. The article details the technical migration process, compares features and pricing between the two services, and discusses the benefits of diversification in infrastructure to avoid centralization risks on the internet.
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Their infrastructure is massive and their feature set is undeniably incredible.
It's a single point of failure for the internet. Every Cloudflare outage ends up affecting millions of websites.
The migration process was surprisingly straightforward, and I was able to complete it within a few hours.
Diversifying infrastructure is becoming increasingly important as we see more consolidation in the tech industry.
Dropping Cloudflare and migrating to bunny.net, starting out with my blog.
