Domains & DNS · DNS & ad blocking

PowerDNS

Authoritative and recursive DNS servers from the Netherlands.

open source self-hostable PowerDNS.COM B.V. · NL

Run your own DNS; used by large European ISPs.

Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Domains & DNS” with itPlan “DNS & ad blocking” with it

How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	PowerDNS.COM B.V. (NL), part of Open-Xchange
Licence	GPL-2.0
Self-hosting footprint	128 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	Cloudflare
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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