Most infrastructure stories are about a company picking a vendor. This one is about two companies making the same bet — that "European" can be a technical foundation, not a marketing adjective — and one of them backing the other for it.
Ciphera runs its entire public edge on Bunny, the Slovenia-based CDN and DNS provider. This site, Pulse's marketing pages, our documentation — all of it is delivered through Bunny's network. And on 23 July 2026, Bunny's HopStart Cohort #3 winners announcement put $25,000 in credits behind that choice, with Ciphera placing second. The news is nice. The reason the two fit is the actual story.
Updated 18 October 2026: we retitled this post and dropped the claim of a fully European stack. Our websites now run on Bunny Magic Containers in about 42 regions, and customer data and backups stay in Switzerland.
We Were on Bunny Long Before HopStart
Bunny isn't a relationship we picked up chasing a credit program. It's infrastructure we were already standing on. Every public Ciphera surface — this website, Pulse's marketing pages, our documentation — runs through Bunny's CDN and DNS, and has for months. We wrote about why we chose Bunny back in March, well before this cohort entered the picture.
The reasoning then was straightforward, and it's the same reasoning that makes the fit worth writing about now: Bunny is headquartered in Slovenia, an EU member state, so GDPR applies to it natively instead of through a bolted-on Data Processing Agreement with a US parent. For a company built on the idea that infrastructure jurisdiction is a privacy decision — not just a performance one — that mattered more than any feature checklist.
Two Companies, One Bet
Ciphera is a Belgian company. GDPR isn't a compliance layer we bolt on top — it's the legal environment we operate in by default. Choosing a CDN and DNS provider that shares that footing, rather than a US company with a European sales office, follows the same logic that put our data in Switzerland and our authentication on OPAQUE. Sovereignty isn't a slogan on a page; it's a list of vendor decisions, made one at a time, that either hold up under scrutiny or don't.
Bunny made the same kind of bet from the other side of the wire — building a genuinely European edge network at a time when "the CDN" was a synonym for a handful of American giants. So when HopStart came around, the fit wasn't a stretch to explain. Cohort #3 recognized Ciphera, a Belgian software company making privacy-first software. Its one product is Pulse, the analytics tool we built because we didn't want to choose between having good traffic data and respecting the people generating it. Pulse doesn't set cookies, doesn't show a consent banner, and doesn't start sampling your data once you cross an arbitrary event threshold. The tracking script is under 3 KB gzipped. You can watch it running right now in the Pulse demo — no account required.
None of that works without fast, reliable edge delivery underneath it. That's Bunny.
Where the Credits Go
Practically, the $25,000 in Bunny credits does two things. First, it goes toward making Ciphera's edge delivery even faster worldwide — Pulse's tracking script and dashboards already ride Bunny's global network, and there's room to push that further for visitors outside Europe without giving up anything on the jurisdiction side. Second, it funds evaluating more of Bunny's edge platform, storage and edge compute included. Between 15 August and 12 September 2026, the Ciphera website, documentation, help centre and status page moved onto Bunny Magic Containers, which runs them in about 42 regions. Customer data and backups stay on servers in Switzerland.
We're not going to dress this up as more than it is: it's a credit award and an ongoing infrastructure relationship, not a signed partnership. But that's exactly why it's worth pointing at. Anyone building privacy-first software eventually hits the same question: how far can a stack really be European? Bunny fronting Ciphera's CDN and DNS, and now backing Ciphera through HopStart, is one honest answer. The edge and DNS are run by an EU company, and customer data and backups are on servers in Switzerland. It is also fast enough to build a product on.
If you're curious what a cookie-free, GDPR-native analytics stack actually looks like running in production, the Pulse demo is public. No signup, no sales call — just the dashboard.