Selfhosted

I installed a Pi-Hole largely to serve as a local DNS, but enabled the ad-blocking 'cause it seemed silly not to. My wife got very upset. Apparently she likes the ads.

With that aside though, it seems to work quite well. Just make sure to (a) use a reasonably-powered device (my Pi Zero appears to be taxed by it) and you should probably use an Ethernet connection 'cause my Pi Zero regularly flakes out so DNS requests fail due to the IP being "unreachable" for a half second.

I had a look at it but didn't use it for longer, I used adguard later in a lxc container later, since i didn't see a point in using a different device, right now the adguard is running as a service on my opnsense so i don't have to rely on something other than the router for internet. I like the option to block on a dns level, and to be fair it's always a similar set of blocklists that can be used, the major difference is in the preselection. right now I could probably switch back to the default opnsense dns server and add the lists there, only losing the info on what has been blocked.

It's great. Gets things done. I even have it for my office. About 20 people there.

Not a fan of Pi-hole itself, but other than that,why not?

(Technitium DNS has some advantages down the road)

I'm running one Pi-hole, but not on RPi. One is an LXC container on my Proxmox host, another is on dedicated Dell Wyse thin client box.

I run a pi-hole on a pi 3 and another in a container in docker. Something rarely goes wrong with both and I have a script that sync them.

I replaced their google with searxng, but in the end, they needed ads for their free to play games, so I had to turn it off for them.

I run Pihole on physical Pi's and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I've even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

I prefer using NextDNS, so that it works wherever I am

I use it on a Raspberry Pi 2B and Orange Pi Zero, both work wonderfully for the task, and it looks like Pi-Hole can work fine even on a router. Both of my SBCs are passively cooled, that’s why I decided to comment on the photo: you don’t need a computer this powerful to run it. As far as I remember, my very first Raspberry Pi (v. 1B or something like that) handled this task very well too. I temporarily retired that SBC in favour of Orange Pi Zero, so I cannot say for sure, but I think that computer had no issues with being fast enough for Pi-Hole. Really, give it a try if you didn’t, it’s ‘install once and forget’ type of software. Perhaps it should be updated periodically, but I don’t manage that. The only nuance with it, you need to have two computers, for the redundancy. Otherwise you’d be having downtimes when you need to turn off the SBC, or even reboot it.

I run pihole without any problems as a docker container. I assume you want to ask how well it works to add custom records, because that's what you usually do with a dns server.

Adding single records with the web ui works just fine. However, adding wildcards isn't possible. So you end up attaching a terminal to your container and adding dnsmasq configs yourself. This is a bit poor.

On the other hand: How often do you need to add wildcards? I needed like 2 entries since I set up pihole a few years ago.

I have run Pihole on 2 physical Pi 4s (DietPi OS) with config sync for 3 years now. Core to the house. Very reliable.

Doing it.
If it works? Why not

I run it in a VM and it's great

To anyone having issues running on a pi it’s likely either or both of the following item -cheap 5v power supply. Yes you can use an old phone charger but it won’t cut it for long term usage. Get a quality unit or better yet the branded pihole charger. We ended up with a Poe hat that it runs off. Sorted Ethernet and power supply.

-memory card. Buy a quality, fast card and you will be fine.

Going on 8 years with my current pi setup. One failure around 6 years in which was the memory card

I just use adguard home. Worker a little better in my docker setup.

The number one rule of selfhosting unbound. Make two.

You won't be happy one morning if you don't. I run unbound with adblocking on OpenWRT, but if my router dies, my whole network does anyway, so... Eh.

I run Pi-Hole in a docker container on my server. I never saw the point in having a dedicated bit of hardware for it.
That said, I don't understand how people use the internet without one. The times I have had to travel for work, trying to do anything on the internet reminded me of the bad old days of the '90s with pop-ups and flashing banners enticing me to punch the monkey. It's just sad to see one of the greatest communications platforms we have ever created reduced to a fire-hose of ads.

I am one of those zillion users. I love it.

I run 2 instances of pihole/unbound as lxcs on my main server and local back up, works great.

If I didn't have the two big boxes I'd use my pi4/zero2 to run two instances of pihole/unbound.

If I didn't have my pis, I'd run 2 instances of pihole/unbound on literally anything I could install it on.

What I'm saying is that I consider pihole/unbound to be essential infrastructure at this point. I'm also trying to say I've broken my only instance of pihole enough times to understand the importance of redundancy.

I use Pis as a (sort of) hardware key to get family and friends onto my Tailscale VPN. They all have pihole too. I haven't convinced any of them to get a pi0 as a redundant box, but I'm sure they'll learn eventually too. No doubt it'll be my problem.

I used pihole for years, but the recent updates made me look for alternatives. There was a major (v6?) update fuckup, but also some random freezes and block lists going missing...

Looking for alternatives, I tried out Technitium. Extremely easy to set up, rock solid, running steady for about 6 months (with frequent updates), and they recently introduced built in high-availability.

I preferred AdGuardHome over PiHole, but currently my servers are collecting dust as I need to get electrical work done before I can hook them up.

It really sucks…

I like it but just not on a Pi. I found it too unstable. I found it easier to host in a docker container.

Although these days i just use blocklists on my router.

@bernhoftbret@lemmy.world pihole is great. I use AdGuard now but either is good. The important thing is having a dns server at home

Yes.