DNS Hosting?

bb33

I have a few domains for personal projects and we have a few more at my workplace. One of the ideas that I've been considering is separating my DNS hosting from domain registration. I'm considering three free DNS hosts that seems to have good reputations for security, privacy, and reliability:

My questions:

What are the pros and cons of using a separate registrar and DNS host?
How should I choose among these three DNS hosts (and any others that I've overlooked and should have included in this evaluation)?
If this isn't the right place to ask this question, where should I direct it? I've been puzzling over this one for several months and I haven't figured out where to get trustworthy advice about this question.

Hiya

I cannot advise on suitability of the DNS hosting services directly. What I can tell you is that I opted to use a DNS hoster (cloudflare) separate from my domain registrar (hover) because the latter did not easily support the acquisition of letsencrypt ssl certificates using the acme script. So you may look for this if you host your own services.

For my choice of DNS hoster, I also found that records propagate extremely fast, which is helpful if you tinker a lot with new self-hosted services. You are unlike to find data on this so you may have to try it out yourself.

bb33

Thank you! It's useful to think about the situations when it makes sense to separate the DNS host from the domain registrar. While I'm not yet self-hosting, I expect to start in the next year or two. It's good to think that I can break up the process into manageable chunks, and this is one of the steps that I can take now, so I'll be more prepared when the time comes.