Could it work?.. BunnyCDN

So I was exploring some video hosting platforms for one of my app and came across BunnyCDN.
My app has around 300-500 short (<1 min) videos, images.

BunnyCDN is working extremely well in testing while I'm making app and I'm thinking to stick with it. Based on the calculator in bunnycdn cost shouldn't increase more than $50 a month.

So BunnyCDN gives 14 day trial period (even with temp-email).

I'm thinking to use this 14 day trial again and again until the app starts to earn at least $100 per month so that it can cover the cdn cost or until bunnycdn method works .

It'll not take me more than 1 hour to register new account upload all the data to new account and update the video URL in Firebase Firestore and the app will get latest URLs instantly without doing too much. So I can do it every 13th day
- register new bunnycdn account
- upload all the data to new account
- update url in Firestore
- delete the old account on 14th day

So currently it's in theory. Just taking some opinions... could it work?

Sounds like a bad plan to me. You should never just add costs in the hope that you'll end up making enough profit to cover it in the future.
Also I suspect that you won't be able to re-use the same hostnames from one account to another.
Just get a cheap unmanaged VPS with a gigabit port, that would be way cheaper than $50 and will serve your videos plenty fast enough.

agent-x said:

Sounds like a bad plan to me. You should never just add costs in the hope that you'll end up making enough profit to cover it in the future.
Also I suspect that you won't be able to re-use the same hostnames from one account to another.
Just get a cheap unmanaged VPS with a gigabit port, that would be way cheaper than $50 and will serve your videos plenty fast enough.

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The plan is to change complete URL scheme from Firebase so url can be anything.
There will be no cost in trial plan and on 14th day I can change the URLs.
If I see the users are increasing and it's worth it, then I can finally get an original account on bunnycdn but I get to test the plan with 0 spending on hosting.

Its fine to be cheap before you make the money, but what you are doing is pure abusive and down the road can hurt you. Also, bunycdn is cheap and they don't give a fuck, but I bet at some point they will fuck you over.

Count the down time when switching the accounts.

what are your top GEOs?

If i was you, i would just place one VPS from BuyVM or Vultr in that Country and store videos/images on there.

You can for example setup 2 VPS, one in US and one is Europe with BuyVM for just $3.50/month. Install on both VPS's a script like this one: https://github.com/Har-Kuun/OneClickCDN .

FatBee said:

Its fine to be cheap before you make the money, but what you are doing is pure abusive and down the road can hurt you. Also, bunycdn is cheap and they don't give a fuck, but I bet at some point they will fuck you over.

Count the down time when switching the accounts.

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yeah just wanna test this thing first before spending something. I may get the paid plan after seeing the cost 1st month or at least when there are enough users which can cover the cost for hosting atleast.

How about AWS free tier?

LilMosey said:

what are your top GEOs?

If i was you, i would just place one VPS from BuyVM or Vultr in that Country and store videos/images on there.

You can for example setup 2 VPS, one in US and one is Europe with BuyVM for just $3.50/month. Install on both VPS's a script like this one: https://github.com/Har-Kuun/OneClickCDN .

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didn't publish the app yet. Yet to see these things after publishing.

joshgarbinson said:

How about AWS free tier?

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AWS free tier is bad, he can receive shitload of fake traffic and it gonna burn.

joshgarbinson said:

How about AWS free tier?

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Not comfortable attaching my card to something which can just suck the money with my tiny mistake.

Shiv659 said:

Not comfortable attaching my card to something which can just suck the money with my tiny mistake.

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How about GCP then, they have a feature to set hard limits to not exceed past free-tier afaik.

joshgarbinson said:

How about GCP then, they have a feature to set hard limits to not exceed past free-tier afaik.

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I found bunnycdn easy to use and straight forward and I'm planning to to pay once the apps income is more than hosting. based on the calculator they have I'm guessing the cost wouldn't even increase $10 but need to test things first to be certain.

@Shiv659
I think it’s a lot of steps and time each week IMO, but you could get away with it. I’ve worked at companies 10x-100x of bunny and seen ppl get away with abusing free trial.

if your looking to save on cost and validate idea, then I would do so.

twinturbo90 said:

@Shiv659
I think it’s a lot of steps and time each week IMO, but you could get away with it. I’ve worked at companies 10x-100x of bunny and seen ppl get away with abusing free trial.

if your looking to save on cost and validate idea, then I would do so.

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yeah there are some steps maybe 2-3 times a month but I can validate the idea before committing to the cost.