Cloudflare Site Not Opening on Algérie Télécom? Why We Recommend Bunny
In late September 2026, a public bug report and our own experience showed the same thing: some websites delivered through Cloudflare did not load on some Algérie Télécom lines, while they opened elsewhere or through a different DNS resolver. This article sets out what the reports say, what a site owner can and cannot change, and why, for websites you host yourself, we now recommend Bunny, a CDN company that bills by usage with a $1 monthly minimum. Every price and feature below was read on the vendors' own pages on 10 November 2026.
Disclosure: DZBuild is a Bunny affiliate partner, and the Bunny links in this article are affiliate links.
This advice is for websites and apps you host yourself: a WordPress site, a custom site, a portfolio, an API, or the files and videos of a mobile app. A DZBuild store needs none of this. Do not put any CDN in front of a DZBuild store, and do not change the DNS of a domain linked to a DZBuild store because of this article.
What visitors in Algeria report
The reports describe a site that works for some people and not for others:
- On an Algérie Télécom line, the page does not load.
- The same page opens on the same day from other connections.
- In one report, the result changed with the DNS resolver. With the router's default resolver or Google's 8.8.8.8 the site failed; with Quad9, Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or AdGuard it loaded.
Public reports and what happened to our developer site
The clearest public record is a GitHub issue opened on 26 September 2026. From an Algérie Télécom fixed line in Sétif, the reporter found that their site failed to load whenever DNS answered with certain Cloudflare shared addresses. According to the reporter's traces, requests to four of those addresses stopped before they left the Algerian network, while other addresses in the same ranges worked. A comment posted the same day says the working requests reached Cloudflare's Madrid data center.
The cause has not been established. The report's traces show those requests stopping before they reached Cloudflare, and the report does not say why.
DZBuild saw it first hand. In late September 2026, our developer site, then delivered through Cloudflare, did not open for visitors on Algérie Télécom lines while it opened elsewhere. We moved it off Cloudflare.
What a site owner can and cannot change
In the GitHub report, whether a visitor reached the site depended on which shared address their DNS resolver returned. Cloudflare's own documentation on its IP addresses says its ranges "are shared by all proxied hostnames". The site owner does not pick the address a given visitor receives, and cannot change the resolver every customer uses.
What the owner does control is where the site is delivered from. For readers whose Algerian visitors are affected, that is the change we recommend.
Why we recommend Bunny for sites you host yourself
When a site has to move, Bunny is the provider we point people to. Each reason below comes from Bunny's own pages:
- You pay for what you use, with a ceiling. Delivery costs $0.01 per GB in Europe and North America and $0.06 per GB in the Middle East and Africa, with no request fees and a $1 monthly minimum. A monthly bandwidth limit protects you from a surprise bill after a traffic spike.
- Video sits on the same account. Bunny Stream encodes for free, includes a player, and bills storage from $0.01 per GB and delivery from $0.005 per GB.
- Support answers at any hour. Bunny's support page says an in-house team works 24 hours a day, every day, with live chat and no support levels. It gives an average first response of 7 minutes, its August 2024 figure.
- The uptime commitment is written down. Bunny's SLA page promises 99.99% availability, with account credits when a month falls below it.
- You can try it without a card. The trial lasts 14 days and comes with $20 of credit, or $50 if you add a card.
We also checked that Bunny itself answers from Algeria. On 10 November 2026 we requested Bunny's website, dashboard and API from home internet connections in Algeria: Algérie Télécom in Algiers, Bab Ezzouar and Zeralda, and Ooredoo in Oran. All 18 requests were answered. That was one test on one day, and it is no guarantee.
To try it on your own site, start a free trial at Bunny.
Features compared, from each vendor's own pages
Both columns quote the vendor's own pages as read on 10 November 2026.
| Feature | Bunny | Cloudflare | What this means for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Bunny Stream: free encoding, free player, storage from $0.01/GB, delivery from $0.005/GB | Service terms: unless you are an Enterprise customer, video and other large files must be served through paid products such as Stream | Your videos live on the same account and the same per-GB bill as your site. |
| Support | In-house team, 24/7, live chat, average first response 7 minutes (August 2024) | Free: cases for billing, account and registrar issues only. Chat: Business and Enterprise, Monday to Friday. English only | You can reach a person about a technical problem at any hour, from the smallest account. |
| Uptime commitment | 99.99%, with credits; the SLA page names no plan | None on Free and Pro; 100% on Business, with service credits | You get a written commitment from your first dollar. |
| Billing | Per GB delivered, no request fees, $1 monthly minimum, optional monthly bandwidth limit | Free plan at $0, traffic on Free described as unmetered; Pro from $20/mo | You pay for what you use and set a ceiling on the bill. |
| Firewall | Shield Basic free: 71 basic WAF rules, 2 rate limit rules. Shield Advanced $9.5/mo adds 10 custom rules | Free: WAF with 5 custom rules. Pro: 20 custom rules | Basic protection costs nothing; custom rules start at $9.5 a month. |
| Network | 119 locations; nearest to Algeria: Rabat, Marseille, Madrid, Milan, Lisbon, Paris | 348 cities, including Algiers, Annaba, Constantine and Oran | Bunny's nearest locations are in Morocco and southern Europe. |
Everything on one Bunny account
The same Bunny account also offers these products, each with the price its page showed on 10 November 2026:
- Storage. Files cost $0.01 per GB per region for up to two regions, or $0.02 per GB per region on the SSD Edge tier. Traffic from storage to the CDN, API calls and API egress are free.
- Perma-Cache. Keeps your files in Bunny Storage across up to 14 SSD regions, so files that are not in the cache are still served from the edge.
- DNS. Free queries and up to 500 free zones, with smart, scriptable records and built-in monitoring. If DNS is the only product you use, the $1 minimum still applies.
- Shield. The Basic tier is free, with 71 WAF rules, 2 rate limit rules and 25 million requests a month included, then $0.70 per million. Advanced costs $9.5 a month and Business $99 a month.
- Optimizer. Compresses, resizes and crops images and minifies CSS and JavaScript files. A fixed $9.50 per website a month, with unlimited requests, whatever your traffic.
- Edge Scripting. Runs your own serverless code, built on Deno with native TypeScript support, across Bunny's network. It costs $0.2 per million requests plus $0.02 per 1,000 seconds of CPU time, with a $1 monthly minimum.
- Magic Containers. Hosts your code in containers that scale with user demand and location. They are billed by use: $0.02 per CPU core per hour and $0.005 per GB of RAM per hour, with traffic at CDN rates.
Prices compared, with a worked example for a small site
Prices were read on 10 November 2026. Confirm them on each vendor's site before you buy.
| What you get | Bunny | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost for a small site | $3.00 to $6.00 for 100 GB on the Standard network, per the worked example below | First paid plan, Pro: $20/mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly |
| Technical support by live chat | 24/7, with no support levels | Business ($200/mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly) and Enterprise, Monday to Friday |
| Written uptime commitment | 99.99%, no plan named | 100% on Business ($200/mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly) |
| Video | Encoding free; storage from $0.01/GB; delivery from $0.005/GB | Stream: $5 per 1,000 minutes stored; $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered; encoding free. Pro and Business include 100 minutes stored and 10,000 delivered |
| Lowest monthly bill | $1 minimum | $0 on the Free plan |
Worked example: a site that serves 100 GB a month. We could not verify which Bunny region serves visitors in Algeria, so here are the three cases on Bunny's Standard network:
- 60 GB from Europe and 40 GB from the Middle East and Africa: 60 × $0.01 = $0.60, plus 40 × $0.06 = $2.40, total $3.00 a month.
- Half and half: 50 × $0.01 = $0.50, plus 50 × $0.06 = $3.00, total $3.50 a month.
- All 100 GB billed at the Middle East and Africa rate: 100 × $0.06 = $6.00 a month. Budget for this case to be safe.
On the Volume network the same 100 GB costs 100 × $0.005 = $0.50, below the minimum, so you pay $1.00 a month; its nearest locations to Algeria are Paris and Frankfurt.
Cloudflare's Free plan is $0, so on a site that already opens for your visitors, Bunny adds a few dollars a month. For a site your Algerian visitors cannot open, that is the cost of moving it.
How to move a site to Bunny
- Lower the TTL of the DNS record you will change, a day before the move, so the change reaches visitors faster.
- Open a Bunny account. The 14-day trial needs no card.
- Create a pull zone for the site and give it your current server as the origin.
- Test on the hostname Bunny gives the zone before touching DNS. Open your pages, images, forms and logins.
- Add your domain to the zone as a custom hostname, and copy the CNAME value Bunny shows for it.
- Set a monthly bandwidth limit in Bunny's overcharge protection.
- Point the DNS record at Bunny with that CNAME, then turn on the free Let's Encrypt certificate, which renews automatically. If your DNS stays at Cloudflare, that record must not be proxied, otherwise visitors still connect to Cloudflare's shared addresses. You can also move the zone to Bunny DNS, which gets you an automatic wildcard certificate.
- Keep the old setup until you have opened the site from an Algérie Télécom line and a mobile network, and checked Bunny's request logs, which are kept for 3 days when logging is on. Then raise the TTL again.
When to stay where you are
Cloudflare's Free plan costs $0 a month and includes DNS, unmetered DDoS protection, the CDN, a Universal SSL certificate and a web application firewall with 5 custom rules. Its network page lists four cities in Algeria: Algiers, Annaba, Constantine and Oran. It also offers HTTP/3 on all plans, a free Workers tier and R2 storage with free egress. If your site already opens for your Algerian visitors, those are good reasons to stay; if it does not, Bunny is the move we recommend.
Frequently asked questions
These answers quote Cloudflare's and Bunny's own pages as read on 10 November 2026.
Does every site on Cloudflare fail to open in Algeria? No. The public report from September 2026 describes requests to four specific Cloudflare shared addresses that did not get through from one Algérie Télécom line, while other addresses in the same ranges worked. The reporter did not measure mobile networks or other regions, and the cause has not been established.
Will moving to Bunny guarantee that my site opens in Algeria? No. On 10 November 2026 we requested Bunny's website, dashboard and API from home connections in Algeria, and all 18 requests were answered. That was one test on one day, and no CDN can promise to be reachable from every network.
Is Bunny cheaper than Cloudflare? Against Cloudflare's paid plans, for a small site, yes. A site that serves 100 GB a month pays between $3.00 and $6.00 on Bunny's Standard network in our worked example, while Cloudflare's first paid plan, Pro, costs $20 a month billed annually or $25 billed monthly. Against Cloudflare's Free plan, no: it costs $0. Prices were read on 10 November 2026.
Does Bunny have servers in Algeria? No. Bunny's network page lists Rabat as its only location in North Africa. Cloudflare's network page lists Algiers, Annaba, Constantine and Oran. We make no claim that Bunny is faster from Algeria.
How do I pay for Bunny? Bunny's pricing page lists PayPal, most major credit cards and crypto. Billing is prepaid and generally non-refundable. The 14-day trial needs no card and comes with $20 of credit, and credit left at the end of the trial is removed. If you add a card to raise the trial credit to $50, prepaid, gift and some virtual cards are not accepted.
Can Bunny deliver video? Yes. Bunny Stream encodes video for free, includes a player, and charges from $0.01 per GB stored and from $0.005 per GB delivered.
Should I put Bunny in front of my DZBuild store? No. A DZBuild store needs none of this. Do not put any CDN in front of a DZBuild store, and do not change the DNS of a domain linked to a DZBuild store because of this article.
Start a Bunny trial
If your Algerian visitors cannot open a site you host yourself, open a Bunny account, put the site on a pull zone, and test it from an Algérie Télécom line before you switch DNS. The trial is free for 14 days.
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