A truly life-changing piece of software (for me anyway). This project ignited my networking curiosity which led to an entire career.
Not my career, but self hosting has been the most fun with tech I’ve had in years, and PiHole was the first thing I got running!
What else you got running?
Right now, I have Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Syncthing, FreshRSS, Searxng, Wireguard. Next want to get a real Joplin Server running
I run two Pi 3b Pi Hole hosts as primary and secondary DNS servers at the house. They’ve been a fantastic addition to our network and have been running forever. I only have to switch out the micro SD cards every few years.
I just have it running as a docker container on a mini PC and I also have tailscale running on it. That way, I can set the Tailscale default DNS to the PiHole’s IP and have ad blocking on my phone even when I leave the house. Truly incredible.
Ooo nice!
Mines running on an OG pi for I have no idea how many years, I’ve never changed the SD card ( hopefully haven’t jinxed myself 🤞😅)
I only replace the SD’s now because one of the OG 8gb cards croaked a long time ago. I guess I could save myself a few bucks and let them run to their logical conclusion. I mean, it’s not like it’s a tough setup from scratch. 😁
One of the greatest home network upgrades you can make. It’s phenomenal.
I changed routers and never reset my pi-hole. This is reminding me to come back to it and set it up! Breaks random websites sometimes though
I had to update mine a couple months ago, complete operating system reinstall because they apparently switched to a different Linux distro and mine was way out of date.
Shut your pie hole
I haven’t touched my pi-hole in years and it still works incredibly!
The sd card died, and I haven’t gotten around to create a new one.
I just replaced my pi-hole with Adguard Home running on a NUC I got myself for Christmas. Seems to be fine so far.
It’s running on bare metal but I’m tinkering with docker to build a stack of other utilities and will probably move it to docker once I’m more comfortable.
I did the same but with Proxmox. It’s made incredibly simple with Tteck’s installation scripts. Highly recommend.
I dunno if I’m comfortable enough to jump to Proxmox yet, I’m still learning containers. I did read up on both Proxmox and CoreOS before landing on Ubuntu Server for the NUC. I may move to something more complex eventually, but I wanted something I was already relatively familiar with that I could set and forget.
Whatever works! I’ve played with Adguard also, bu Pi-hole set off a huge ecosystem of open-source ad-blocking/privacy options which continue to grow with time.
Pi-Hole is a great thing. The benefits of Adguard are DNS over TLS support and individual device unblocking.
Run that on my nas for house side blocking
How would you rate pi-hole vs Technitium, used both but only using Technitium now.
