I personally use my own Windows Server DNS Services for this. I just have too many machines to deal with HOSTS files. and I like on Linux, I think that you can easily change which ORDER of dns resolution you are currently using. I wish that I could do that on Windows. Just temporarily put the DNS server to have a higher priority than HOSTS file. it would help in troubleshooting. For licensing, I just use Windows Server trial versions. I used to have MSDN, and if I was working fulltime, I'd just get MSDN again. it's worth it. I just can't ever get DNS server on linux working properly. I guess the primary DNS problems that I've had on Linux revolve around a 'control panel' program called VestaCP. I was a slave to VestaCP for many years and now, I'm ecstatic that there is a good fork called HestiaCP. VestaCP includes softaculous, but HestiaCP doesn't. HestiaCP seems a lot better for production websites, it supports multi factor authentication everywhere, and HTTPS/SSL is a lot more reliable/full-featured with HestiaCP.
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