DNS & ad blocking
Pi-hole
Network-wide ad blocking on a Raspberry Pi.
open source self-hostable Pi-hole project · ?A DNS sinkhole for the whole home: ads and trackers disappear on every device.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Pi-hole project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | EUPL-1.2 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 128 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | NextDNS |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 60,740 stars · updated 2026-07-06 · Shell, PHP, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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