Raspberry Pi / Pi-Hole Recommendations

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I want to put together two of these for my work office and at home. What are some good and cheap Raspberry Pi options for using with Pi Hole filtering? What's worked best for you guys? Any advice is appreciated.
 
Is there something in particular you're after? Fortunately PiHole is easy to get up and running, and since the rPi is a SBC there's not a lot to them. Pick your favorite flavor, image your SD card and you're off. You don't need a 4, mine is a 3B+ and it's more than enough. I have a cheap $5 case, reused a cell phone charger and a 16Gb Sandisk SD card. Since you're running two in each location, I'd probably get a dual USB charger instead of two single units.

PiHole also runs great in a LXC container if you're running Proxmox or something.
 
iroc409 said:
Is there something in particular you're after? Fortunately PiHole is easy to get up and running, and since the rPi is a SBC there's not a lot to them. Pick your favorite flavor, image your SD card and you're off. You don't need a 4, mine is a 3B+ and it's more than enough. I have a cheap $5 case, reused a cell phone charger and a 16Gb Sandisk SD card. Since you're running two in each location, I'd probably get a dual USB charger instead of two single units.

PiHole also runs great in a LXC container if you're running Proxmox or something.
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That’s great info, thanks. That was one of my concerns is if the 4 was even necessary. I’ll just get the cheaper B Plus then. The whole process does look incredibly simple and straightforward.
 
You shouldn't have any problem setting it up. For reference, my 3B+ used to run Network UPS Tools (NUT), PiHole and was a Unifi controller. No issues with performance, other than the web interface for Unifi could be kind of sluggish at times. I'm in the process of pulling Unifi, so it's just back to PiHole and NUT.
 
Yeah, Pi-Hole is just DNS (+DHCP if you want to enable that instead of using your router's), which is very lightweight in a home environment. You're be hard-pressed to max it out, even on a RPi Zero.

I have Pi-Hole running within a LXC container. CPU usage rarely tops 1% (probably during downloading of list updates) and it's using less than half each of the 128 MB RAM/128 MB swap allocated to it. Disk usage is ~1 GB, mostly for logs.
 
I run mine on my a VM inside of my nas which uses 1 core and only 384mb of ram. My nas is a hp NL-40 micro server lol
 
Have my pihole on a 3b, 40% mem usage, 0.05 load. I find it amazing that it has blocked (pretty consistently) 15% of all the dns queries. Lots of spam blocked.
 
The VM is a good idea guys, thanks. I'll toy with all this when I get a chance.
 
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