Pi Hole
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I realize I'm necro posting here but, is anyone actually running their Pi-Hole on Vultr? I have family that would love to use this for ad blocking but aren't technical enough to setup a Pi at home.
Any special consideration? Risks about having this open to the public? The obviously have dynamic IPs so not like I can restrict their IPs. Would Vultr's smallest instance be enough?
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@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:
Would Vultr's smallest instance be enough?
I would assume the $5 instance would the best choice.
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I have mine running on the 2.50$ server.
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I have mine running on the 2.50$ server.
Have you locked it down to only your IP address or is it open to the internet? What have you done to secure the server?
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@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:
I realize I'm necro posting here but, is anyone actually running their Pi-Hole on Vultr? I have family that would love to use this for ad blocking but aren't technical enough to setup a Pi at home.
Any special consideration? Risks about having this open to the public? The obviously have dynamic IPs so not like I can restrict their IPs. Would Vultr's smallest instance be enough?
Buy a Raspberry Pi kit, set it up for them , and mail it, with picture instructions.....
Then remote into their computer and change their home router DHCP to point to the Pi-hole.
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$70 via Amazon Prime.
https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Complete-Starter-Kit/dp/B01C6Q2GSY/I bought a bunch at Microcenter for like $30 with a sd card, case, and power brick a while back.
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@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:
The obviously have dynamic IPs so not like I can restrict their IPs.
Not true
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15008/pihole-for-friends-and-family/
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Here is the direct link: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15008/pihole-for-friends-and-family/21
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
Here is the direct link: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15008/pihole-for-friends-and-family/21
Yes, I remember this thread. This assumes they have a DDNS client running and registered a DDNS domain.
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@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:
I realize I'm necro posting here but, is anyone actually running their Pi-Hole on Vultr?
Yes, mine is there.
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@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:
I have mine running on the 2.50$ server.
Have you locked it down to only your IP address or is it open to the internet? What have you done to secure the server?
Mine's open. I have several people who use it from all over.
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@scottalanmiller No issues?
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@scottalanmiller Interesting...
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@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?
$2.50 instance of Ubuntu current on Vultr.
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?
Mine runs Fedora 27, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD (ram and hdd both more than it needs) on a KVM host.
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This is crazy. 6 devices at home only on the network for about 7 hours:
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@wls-itguy said in Pi Hole:
This is crazy. 6 devices at home only on the network for about 7 hours:
Smartphones and Tablets can query a lot of blocks because of apps.
