For the past 15 years or so I have run my own authoritative DNS server for all of my domain names. It started out because back when I was 18 or 19 I ran a small web design / web hosting business which was also a re-seller for a registrar. At the time it made sense to run my own name servers. After that business was dissolved, I consolidated my server farm down to one small un-managed VPS for my own personal projects, and just kept running my own DNS. There was no real reason for me to keep it, but it worked, and I like hosting my own stuff. Recently I started toying with the idea of offloading my DNS to somewhere else. There are a number of free options that I have access to, but the more I was thinking about it, the more I liked having complete […]