Pi-hole
Reddit take
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Pros
- But not only have I reclaimed more memory in my Proxmox host, PiHole is a lot more quieter too!
- I run pihole on my network. My wife realizes she has her wifi turned off on her phone when she gets bombarded with ads.
- I still love Pihole for introducing me to DNS and quite frankly Selfhosting.
- You can try it at home with Adblock or pihole.
- Multiple pihole VMs providing adblocking for management, primary, and guest VLANs and configured as blackholes for child and IOT VLANs
Cons
- PiHole require a lot of ram
- Bro received an ad while running pihole and that was the final straw
- It was not the internet, it was pihole not working for some reason. Pihole wasn't working because my 1tb drive was full.
- Home server running: a. Unifi Controller b. 7--4K security cameras c. PiHole
- Rn running Pihole Nxt cloud bit warden tailscale self hosted my resume website
Sentiment
11 positive (58%) · 5 mixed (26%) · 3 negative (16%)
Trust + time weighted score: +39% · raw score 42%
What redditors said (10 of 19)
But not only have I reclaimed more memory in my Proxmox host, PiHole is a lot more quieter too!
PiHole require a lot of ram
Bro received an ad while running pihole and that was the final straw
I run pihole on my network. My wife realizes she has her wifi turned off on her phone when she gets bombarded with ads.
I still love Pihole for introducing me to DNS and quite frankly Selfhosting.
You can try it at home with Adblock or pihole.
It was not the internet, it was pihole not working for some reason. Pihole wasn't working because my 1tb drive was full.
Multiple pihole VMs providing adblocking for management, primary, and guest VLANs and configured as blackholes for child and IOT VLANs
I love Pihole ad blocker, but it’s overkill to run a raspberry pi or server for it.
Home server running: a. Unifi Controller b. 7--4K security cameras c. PiHole