So, with the Cloudflare outage, I have found my self hosted services are not accessible outside of the home. I use a SWAG reverse proxy from linuxserver.io and bought my domain through cloudflare. I’m fairly new at this stuff, so is this a secure way of doing things? Does cloudflare have access to my data? I’m fairly new at this, so I apologize if this is a silly question. Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?


Those are not authoritative responses, though. You can only add CNAME and A records to pihole, because it’s built on dnsmasq and not on bind/unbound.
You can’t add SOA records to pihole. Or zone transfers, or any actual DNS server functions, really. Pihole is just a forwarder.