Same, used NextDNS and Pi-Hole then move to AdGuard Home til today.
Built-in (DoH, DoT,...) servers are useful and simple to setup with client identification.
It's not hard to setup a pi as a backup DNS on your local network,, but how I've setup a few friends who have limited hardware is to have the primary DNS as the local adguard and the secondary DNS as adguards public adblock DNS
That way if the local falls over, you still get some as ad blocking from their public one. If your setup allows it, they also have a public doh and dot encrypted dns for a bit of privacy
Same, used NextDNS and Pi-Hole then move to AdGuard Home til today.
Built-in (DoH, DoT,...) servers are useful and simple to setup with client identification.
Are you guys not concerned about losing complete access to the internet if something drops on your server?
I realise these will be very rare cases, but shit happens sometimes, and always seems to happen at the worst possible moments.
What's your recovery plan?
Edit to add that this is the reason I'm on nextdns... Make it someone else's problem
It's not hard to setup a pi as a backup DNS on your local network,, but how I've setup a few friends who have limited hardware is to have the primary DNS as the local adguard and the secondary DNS as adguards public adblock DNS
That way if the local falls over, you still get some as ad blocking from their public one. If your setup allows it, they also have a public doh and dot encrypted dns for a bit of privacy