Deploying to BunnyCDN and protecting Norway from drop bears

Not long ago, I wrote about running containers as part of moving my hobby projects to European cloud providers. That post was focused on running good old Linux servers. I briefly mentioned BunnyCDN but didn’t dive into the details. It’s time to dive into the details! What the flark is a CDN? A content delivery network is a geographically distributed network of servers that can deliver content to your users, close to where they are. It’s useful, because the speed of light isn’t fast enough to make pages load quickly across the other side of the globe. Seriously, the fastest thing in the universe cannot deliver cat pictures to people quickly enough. By using a CDN, you can geographically distribute assets like cat pictures, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, video files, fonts and much more. ...

April 20, 2025 · 8 min · 1609 words · Robin Kåveland