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Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?
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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'll re-think whether I recommend it to random people around the world, then.
In Germany it's great. I've been using it for many years now. But we have some good/strong hacker organizations, digital sovereignty and privacy groups, nonprofits and some generous IT companies. Maybe it's random private individuals in other countries and they're not as reliable.
Seems right now there's something going wrong anyway. I don't think the amount of "offline" servers is normal. And a good amount of them isn't even offline, but still answer my DNS queries.