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Donno if this is a silly question or not. But if there anywhere to buy a raspberry + pi with pi-hole pre-configured on it?

I've wanted one for a while but just wanna plug it in and go to the web console, not buy it set it up install it etc.

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All you have to do is run a script from the pi-hole website to install. It’s very effortless. Like.. literally effortless. If you’re posting here, I guarantee you could do it in no time. The “hardest” part is excluding an IP for the pihole & setting your DHCP server to serve that IP w/ new leases. Good luck dude.

Well to be fair, there's some effort in setting up the RasPi to begin with - flashing a memory card and installing the linux os flavor (which one?), etc. There's a lot of steps.

I'm a total newbie and figured it out, but didn't find it "effortless". Lots of instructions to follow.

I would specify that piping from curl to bash is literally effortless :) whether or not that's the best installation practice is another question

Haha ok. I Guess my Xmas present to myself this year is a raspberry pi and setting this up :)

Thanks!

Go for it, it's really worth the effort, even if it is a small one, with the bonus of being fun (at least for me it is). I can't imagine setting up my home network without pihole, and I'm considering setting it up at work, I manage a small network with 100 devices connected to the internet.

Can a Pi really keep up with that size of network or would you run it on more powerful hardware/a VM?

DNS is a very light protocol. In addition, responses tend to be cached, so it's not like the Pi would be hit with a dozen queries on literally every page load for every client on the network.

As @theandrewbailey mentioned, DNS is light protocol, I guess even older PIs would handle it pretty well. But, as a permanent solution, I would opt to set up on a VM/Docker so that I could have snapshots to quickly recover the service in the event of a problem.

If you have an existing desktop unused or something you can run it on any Linux. I personally run the PiHole on a Debian VM on my FreeNAS server (that is already running).

You don't even need to buy the latest model. I've been running mine in a Pi Zero for +2 years without any problem.

I'd suggest getting an RPi with an ethernet port, I've got mine running on an original Raspberry Pi.

I'm running the Pi Zero with a micro usb to ethernet adapter

I tried setting up a 3B+ with pi-hole, but I think it was overheating...I had it set up on a first-gen Pi, and it still works great.

I've found this[0].

[0]: https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/pi-hole-kit-network-wide-a...

Adafruit also sells two pi-hole kits, one with a Pi Zero included and one BYOP (Bring Your Own Pi).

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3973

and

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3974

I am not affiliated with Adafruit nor do I own either of these products.

Oh this is great. Thanks!!

thank you!

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