Making a Beefy Private Cloud - Improving the Infra even Further
Feb 17 · 9 min read · I've been thoroughly enjoying using my private cloud, inside and outside my home. You may check out how I set it up in this article but the gist of it is: I have a single box running Proxmox with an OPNsense VPN as my router, the Tailscale plugin in ...
Join discussion🔒 Network-Wide Ad-Blocking Mastery: Pi-hole, Unbound, WireGuard & Nginx in Action
Sep 26, 2025 · 4 min read · Ever wished you could block ads, trackers, and malicious domains across your entire network—without installing a single browser extension?That’s exactly what Pi-hole does. Pi-hole works as a DNS sinkhole, filtering unwanted domains before they even r...
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Guide to Hosting Pi-hole in Azure
Apr 29, 2025 · 9 min read · The Great Pi-hole Paradigm Shift Let's start with a confession: I absolutely love Pi-hole. If you've never experienced the pure joy of watching your network block thousands of ads and trackers in real-time, you're missing out on one of the most satis...
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Using pi-hole as your external-dns provider in Kubernetes
May 1, 2024 · 4 min read · environment assumptions A locally-running Kubernetes cluster Pi-Hole on the network configured as the primary DNS what is external-dns? When you build an ingress (which is essentially a layer-7 host and path-based load-balancer) in Kubernetes to ...
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Adding a Pi-Hole DNS server to my home network
Oct 1, 2023 · 2 min read · I recently repurposed an old but still pretty sturdy samsung laptop as a Pi-Hole DNS Server on my home network and so far (just a couple of days in), it seems to be working pretty well. The laptop is running Ubuntu Server and is a headless/gui-less m...
Join discussionPi-Hole On Docker
Sep 24, 2023 · 4 min read · Introduction Pi-Hole is a network-wide Ad Blocking based on a DNS filter. It can also act as a DHCP server. Pi-Hole Installation Method: 1 (Auto) Run the following script wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akkupy/Homelab/main/scripts/ins...
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Use Pi-Hole to block ads for yourself & others in your network
Jun 11, 2023 · 8 min read · Motivation These days, the internet is full of ads and you can't read any piece of news/blog without encountering any banner/full-page ad/pesky pop-up(s). Whenever my parents read any piece of news, their experience is ruined by the sheer number of a...
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Pi-hole with Raspberry Pi 3
Aug 10, 2022 · 2 min read · A pi-hole is basically a black-hole for internet ads. The project is an open source ad blocking software at the DNS level. Installing Pi-hole The easiest way of installing Pi-hole is by running the following script curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.n...
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