I’ve run Pi-hole in my homelab for years and benefited from using the service. As well as the hands-on education.

With that said, what is everyone else’s experience with the software? Do you use Pi-hole in your homelab setup? I would assume many hundreds of thousands of people use Pi-hole.

Edit #1:

The image attached to this post is my RPi 5, which hosts the Pi-hole software. Big supporter of the whole “SBCs for learning and home improvement” mentality.

Edit #2:

It is interesting to see the broad support for Pi-hole and DNS blockers in general. The more options, the healthier the tech ecosystem is, which benefits everyone.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    I use Pi-Hole unbound, and I really like it. However, Technitium seems to be the new favorite and has a lot of bells and whistles that Pi-Hole doesn’t. I haven’t run Technitium basically because Pi-Hole fits my needs. If I were just starting out, I would probably consider Technitium.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’ve thought about switching to Technitium but dealing with network tools is a whole can of worms I don’t want to open up again until PiHole or Unbound shits the bed on me lmao. PiHole’s working just fine for what I need it to do.

      • mmmac@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Technitium is much easier to set up than pihole/adguard IMO, as it supports recursive resolving or DoH/DoT out of the box.

        It also supports mirroring root servers, clustering etc. I switched last week and I’m very happy with it

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’ll have to check on this one, never heard of it, and unbound has a tendency to randomly fail on me after a few months.