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The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky (den.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't fall for the trap that they recommend an expensive Pi 5: I am running Pi-hole on a Pi 2 but you can basically run this on obsolete hardware, whether that's a Pi or a PC/laptop

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    I'm running Pi-hole and Pi-VPN on a Zero W (using a Geekworm case w/RJ45). It's not very taxing at all.

    I also run two other Pi-hole instances in my server cluster (one in Docker and one in an LXC container). Mostly just for uptime reasons, so I can take any one of them down at any time to perform maintenance and/or upgrade.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I run mine on a PI 0. Also use it as a samba disk partition for transferring files.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    No performance impacts on regular browsing? I never dared to run a DNS on a wifi only device. Or are you using some kind of Ethernet over USB thing?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I’m running mine on a pi 0. Very slight latency difference - like 2-3ms. Totally worth it for blocking 30% of garbage on average. The decrease in time it takes to load anything more than makes up for the latency. We have over 20 devices on wifi. Both my son and I play online games and the only time I blame lag is when I suck lol.

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