Pi Hole

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[JaredBusch]

$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.

[Alex Sage]

@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/

[Alex Sage]

Here is the direct link: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15008/pihole-for-friends-and-family/21

[NashBrydges]

@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.

[scottalanmiller]

@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.

[scottalanmiller]

@nashbrydges said in Pi Hole:

@coliver 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.

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller No issues?

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@scottalanmiller No issues?

Nope, no issues.

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller Interesting...

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?

[JaredBusch]

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@scottalanmiller No issues?

What issues would you be expecting?

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?

$2.50 instance of Ubuntu current on Vultr.

[travisdh1]

@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.

[WLS-ITGuy]

This is crazy. 6 devices at home only on the network for about 7 hours:

[black3dynamite]

@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.

[JaredBusch]

Do you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot?
Because the single Dot I have is responsible for most of this.

[WLS-ITGuy]

I do not have a dot or echo. The 6 clients are 4 cell phones the Pi-Hole and my Mac.

[JaredBusch]

That top IP is my echo dot

[JaredBusch]