Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny

To optimize the performance metrics of this blog, I relied on Amazon CloudFront to serve the assets,1 and Route 53 for the geo-aware DNS2 to direct readers to the closest host serving the content. But Route 53 is expensive: US$0.50 per zone per month, US$0.70 per million geolocation queries, and US$0.75 per healthcheck per month, plus US$1 per month for the KMS key needed to sign zones with DNSSEC. When I discovered that Bunny DNS is almost free for up to 500 domains and features scriptable answers, I made the jump! Plus, it's a European company based in Slovenia. Bunny CDN Bunny DNS The HTTPS record solution The hybrid solution ACME DNS with Hickory DNS Bunny CDN Bunny.net started as BunnyCDN in 2015. They added IPv6 support in 2017. Switching was uneventful. I don't bring a custom domain: I serve the content from the b-cdn.net domain. As I depend on content negotiation to serve AVIF and WebP images, I configure the CDN to cache each image format separately. I disable logging to…

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