I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!
Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!
Does a pihole setup not slow down your connectivity? Been looking into it but I’m very much a novice with my raspberry pi. I do want to use it for something cool other than just sitting around.
And my question is only deepened by the fact that I have a synology box as well. I could use pihole on that instead of my raspberry pi, right?
Ideally Pihole should actually speed up your connectivity by blocking all of the tracking and ad connections your browser and apps would normally make. Since it’s basically just a DNS server, it doesn’t take much horsepower to run either.
Pi-hole’s not a router, just a fancy DNS server. Your network traffic doesn’t go through it, so its impact on your speeds is negligible. Since all it does is respond to DNS queries and keep logs, it also doesn’t require a lot of processing power. I used to run it on the first gen raspberry pi, and even that puny thing could easily handle the job. Your Synology box should be able to do it just fine.
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Does a pihole setup not slow down your connectivity? Been looking into it but I’m very much a novice with my raspberry pi. I do want to use it for something cool other than just sitting around.
And my question is only deepened by the fact that I have a synology box as well. I could use pihole on that instead of my raspberry pi, right?
Ideally Pihole should actually speed up your connectivity by blocking all of the tracking and ad connections your browser and apps would normally make. Since it’s basically just a DNS server, it doesn’t take much horsepower to run either.
Pi-hole’s not a router, just a fancy DNS server. Your network traffic doesn’t go through it, so its impact on your speeds is negligible. Since all it does is respond to DNS queries and keep logs, it also doesn’t require a lot of processing power. I used to run it on the first gen raspberry pi, and even that puny thing could easily handle the job. Your Synology box should be able to do it just fine.