Bunny doesn’t have a free tier, but their greatest asset is that it has prepaid billing: there’s zero risk of running up a surprise six figure bill just because of being attacked, making a mistake with a deploy, or other sudden sources of resource usage. I’d rather my site go down than to be on the hook for hundreds of thousands, which many projects have no hope of generating from sudden spikes in traffic of any source.
There’s a cost limit to how much high availability is worth on any project but vendors like CloudFlare don’t respect that.
There’s a cost limit to how much high availability is worth on any project but vendors like CloudFlare don’t respect that.