5 reasons I'm self-hosting a DNS server

If you're new to DNS, the easiest way to understand it is to compare it to a phone book. DNS is the phone book of the internet, except we don’t get to choose what number gets listed. Most of us let our ISPs or big-name providers like Google or Cloudflare handle our DNS queries without a second thought. While this works great for the most part, there are certain situations where you might want more control. I know I did. So I decided to run my own custom DNS server, right from home, using my Synology NAS.