[donmcronald]

Really cheap. Lol. Maybe $50 ish per year and then I’d just tolerate exposing my bind server. Low volume is very low since most queries would be for monitoring where the DNS lookups could be done locally to the hidden primary.

Cloudflare looked super appealing because I could spin everything up in Docker containers and expose the web based part via Cloudflare Tunnel which would keep my self hosted infrastructure completely hidden.

It’s tempting to just write something that runs on Cloudflare TBH.

[toast0]

At your budget, I'd run authoritative DNS on the free tier at a few clouds. If you can get one resolver in east US, west US and Europe, that'll be pretty ok.