If you can read german, go with contabo or delta networks. Good and cheaps vps

Adguard Home with Unbound. And Unbound uses root.hints file to resolve

Edit: I use Hagezi Pro, Oisd.nl as blocklists as the are very well maintained

That’s why i had to guess

Selfhosted… at home? If i would run a DNS query, i could see your IP

Get yourself crowdsec and the background noise of the web will be reduced in secounds