Our LowEndBox Interview Series has featured many interesting personalities so far and today we’re excited to bring you an interview with the CEO and Founder of BunnyCDN, Dejan (aka @BunnySpeed on LowEndTalk).  I really enjoyed reading this interview and I think you will as well, as his incredible passion for his company and their fun culture really shines through.  I encourage you to visit their web site, which is one of the sharpest I’ve seen in a long time – very cool use of a memorable art theme (rabbits, which connote speed).

Tell me about your background and your company’s history?

BunnyCDN actually started as my personal side-project around 8 years ago while I was still working as a full time mobile software developer at a different company. I have always been a very creative person and worked on many small little projects or pieces of software to explore ideas or just for the fun of it.

Amongst other things at the time, I was running a mildly popular “Japanese PoP culture” website (wink) that was presenting an ever-increasing traffic bill. Back then, everyone was charging crazy prices for CDN bandwidth unless you were a large enterprise with a multi-year contract. Being from Eastern Europe, I practically had almost no money, so even the budget CDNs were somehow incredibly expensive. So in the good low-end spirit, I built my own simple CDN to speed up the content delivery. At that point, it was just one of the many little projects that I did.

While I was playing with the routing and checking the results, something clicked in my head and I realized that there is a clear market need for a service like that and likely there were many more website owners that would very much need a service like this.

After around 2 years of planning, going through ideas and development, I launched the first version, but starting without any kind of funding meant a slow and rocky start. Turns out starting a CDN is tricky when your budget is nonexistent and just a small peak of video traffic can overload your whole system. Also, if you’re the only one working on it, it will need your attention 24/7.

However, I kept working on it pretty much 7 days a week and tried to find solutions in software to solve hardware and cost issues and automate as much as possible. It was all very slow, but we were gradually getting some traction and with the help of a friend, I was able to move over full time in 2017.

After that, things really sped up. I could finally focus my full attention to what I loved and we started to build a proper team. Fast forward to 2020, we are now one of the top CDN brands out there and we’re now growing faster than ever with close to 10.000 customers already. Handling a random 100 Gbit peak of traffic over a couple of seconds is just a regular occurrence these days, so it’s been a very exciting journey for me to see the company grow and evolve.

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