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If you are, what is it? How are you running it? Dedicated hardware? A VM? In a container? I only have the two options since they are considered some of the most popular.

If you are, what is it? How are you running it? Dedicated hardware? A VM? In a container?

I only have the two options since they are considered some of the most popular.

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Adguard Home
17 % (1 votes)
piHole
67 % (4 votes)
Other (Post below)
17 % (1 votes)
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[–] • 3 pts

I have a fanless PC running Linux that is my server box. It hosts my NAS and other odds n ends including pi-hole.

I bought my bf a pi zero that already had pi-hole on it and that was practically plug and play since he didn't need a real server.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

You bought your BF a Pi Zero? Wow! Awesome! Want to really surprise him? Get him a Pi 5 or a Le Potato.

Anyway, I run Pi Hole on my Raspberry Pi 5. It's totally awesome. It's one of those "geeze, why didn't I do this years ago." It makes network management so easy and flexible. I like its local DNS management.

Oh, I don't believe in using containers except for enterprise deployments. It's not useful on a small machine.

[–] • 2 pts

I've had a lot of pi's but the last one cracked the sdcard from heat. He doesn't see a use for one or I would give him one. I just got tired of ads on his network so did up the zero for him as something he doesn't have to maintain. He's a geek but doesn't bother with the Linux stuff and doesn't need much weird stuff at home like I do, apparently.

I've been using a dd-wrt router forever and pi hole for ages as well. I love pi-hole. I've caught so many weird things like a wifi extender pinging a time server constantly to display uptime. I can get stupid stuff like a floor mop that needs a firmware update and then block the MAC on my router.

[–] • 0 pt

I used to be a hard core windows user, but recently, I've gone hard core Debian and Ubuntu on clusters of SBCs. It all works, no nasty "upgrades" and i get good performance on low powered hardware.