[stonegray]

Maybe not what you’re looking for, but I put adguard home on a VPS (although later switched to a “real” dns software prior to benchmarking) and is faster^1 than connecting directly to cloudflare from home.

[1] https://stonegray.ca/dns/#performance

Edit: for the curious, I use technetium as the server, nginx to proxy it (security stuff, prioritize traffic from my zerotier network, do DNS/DoT translation, etc) and docker/letsencrypt/watchtower/netdata for auto updating and status reporting, packaged as a single docker compose I can deploy easily.

[uncharted9]

This looks really interesting. I am not in North American region and hence this would be slow from my region. But nonetheless interesting project. Have you documented the entire setup journey on a blog or video?