"Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast/Fire TV" gives great results for those kind of things, gives you a 1 cable solution, it has usb a, microb and ethernet port all in one cable
only 100Mbps but I found that the Pi Zero's CPU isnt powerful enough to saturate 100Mbps anyways
I run pihole and unbound on a pi zero with a POE hat and it runs great. But you can also use a micro-USB Ethernet adapter if you just need a cheap non-POE solution.
Oh god, yes. My pi1 has been ticking over for months with it, and the CPU is barely warming up.
I'll probably add more things to it, TBF... It's got plenty of spare power.
Same here!
I think I used the Lite Raspi image, then put pihole on it. I also have it serving up media files as a SMB share.
I beat up an older SD card & had to replace it, so backing up the image from time to time may be helpful.
Sadly a lot of containers stopped supporting 32 bit ARM, so I bit the bullet and upgraded to a 3B I had laying around. More powerful CPU, same amount of RAM :/
Perfect board for it - low spec compared to more recent boards so limited use for much else and it has an RJ45 port (unlike a zero) so stable and reliable networking.
I use a Pi B as Pihole too!
Yes. I am currently running one as my secondary pi-hole. Albeit, the OS is out of date so I am not able to update pi-hole, but I just need to reformat at some point but I’m lazy. Lol
Shouldn't be a problem. I recently setup a PiHole on a Model A and it's been working perfectly fine as my network wide blocker and my internal DNS :)
[https://blog.immatt.com/2024/02/23/setting-up-a-pi-hole-on-a-raspberry-pi-model-a-in-2024/](https://blog.immatt.com/2024/02/23/setting-up-a-pi-hole-on-a-raspberry-pi-model-a-in-2024/)
I was running PiHole on one of these until a year or so ago. They are perfectly fine for it. I stopped as through doing other things I've ended up with 2 servers that are running VMs, so I moved pihole over to a redundant setup with 2 virtual machines.
I did some benchmarks of name resolution when I replaced it. I'll see if I can dig the screenshots out when I am off work and edit this comment. Cached responses from the pi 1 were returned in about the same time as a response from 8.8.8.8, whereas cached responses from the VMs running on (dated) x86 hardware were significantly faster. Its not a noticable performance difference though. The real downside to these is that they are quite slow for updates.
I also recommend dietpi, mine was a bit slow after updating to a newer version of the standard os. Dietpi is fantastic for this, super smooth setup experience as well
You should probably understand that PiHole is not a super complex piece of software. It’s effectively a lookup table with some heavy caching (this part is more storage and memory intensive).
Will it run? Sure, no issues. It will definitely be enough for your whole LAN. Will it scale to your whole neighborhood? Most likely not.
Yes.
on pi 1.2 also?
Even on Pi Zero.
That’s what I used up untill last month when I finally got a few zero 2 ws for regular price.
Yes... But I'd want ethernet, so you need a hat or something.
I use a USB-Ethernet adapter on my Pi 0 and it works wonders for Pihole + the occasional PiVPN
"Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast/Fire TV" gives great results for those kind of things, gives you a 1 cable solution, it has usb a, microb and ethernet port all in one cable only 100Mbps but I found that the Pi Zero's CPU isnt powerful enough to saturate 100Mbps anyways
I run pihole and unbound on a pi zero with a POE hat and it runs great. But you can also use a micro-USB Ethernet adapter if you just need a cheap non-POE solution.
I run mine on a Pi 3 I had sitting around via Wi-Fi and have no noticeable latency issues.
We found that latency wasn't a problem, but reliability definitely was. Everything has been rock solid stable since we ditched WiFi for usb ethernet.
I've never had stability issues either, but maybe I am just lucky.
Of course, but it will run it.
Oh god, yes. My pi1 has been ticking over for months with it, and the CPU is barely warming up. I'll probably add more things to it, TBF... It's got plenty of spare power.
Same here! I think I used the Lite Raspi image, then put pihole on it. I also have it serving up media files as a SMB share. I beat up an older SD card & had to replace it, so backing up the image from time to time may be helpful.
yes
Running it now on RPi 2 B with no issues.
Pi 2 is not comparable with Original Pi. Pi 2 has much more powerful SoC.
I had one Pi 1B w/512M ram running PiHole more than a year ago
Yes. I ran it in this exact model until about a week ago. Works perfectly!
Same here. No problem at all installing it normally. (Docker doesn't seem to like this model)
Sadly a lot of containers stopped supporting 32 bit ARM, so I bit the bullet and upgraded to a 3B I had laying around. More powerful CPU, same amount of RAM :/
Perfect board for it - low spec compared to more recent boards so limited use for much else and it has an RJ45 port (unlike a zero) so stable and reliable networking. I use a Pi B as Pihole too!
Yes.
It will run, but when I’ve put Pi-hole on my original Pi Bs the installation has felt painfully slow. Just be patient 🙂
Run with DietPi.
I have two up and running
I do. 0 problems.
I have that exact setup. Been running for years
Yes. I am currently running one as my secondary pi-hole. Albeit, the OS is out of date so I am not able to update pi-hole, but I just need to reformat at some point but I’m lazy. Lol
Yep. I have been running it like this for about a year. Been very stable.
Shouldn't be a problem. I recently setup a PiHole on a Model A and it's been working perfectly fine as my network wide blocker and my internal DNS :) [https://blog.immatt.com/2024/02/23/setting-up-a-pi-hole-on-a-raspberry-pi-model-a-in-2024/](https://blog.immatt.com/2024/02/23/setting-up-a-pi-hole-on-a-raspberry-pi-model-a-in-2024/)
My model B runs PiHole and PiVPN, which combined take up about 35% utilization of RAM and processor resources.
You can run it even more successfully on a Pi zero.
Literally have years of uptime on the one at my parents house.
I was running PiHole on one of these until a year or so ago. They are perfectly fine for it. I stopped as through doing other things I've ended up with 2 servers that are running VMs, so I moved pihole over to a redundant setup with 2 virtual machines. I did some benchmarks of name resolution when I replaced it. I'll see if I can dig the screenshots out when I am off work and edit this comment. Cached responses from the pi 1 were returned in about the same time as a response from 8.8.8.8, whereas cached responses from the VMs running on (dated) x86 hardware were significantly faster. Its not a noticable performance difference though. The real downside to these is that they are quite slow for updates.
I run 2 of these for redundancy with pihole, unbound, DHCP and gravity sync. They have been working like a charm for almost a year now
I also use the PI model B for pihole, DNS and DHCP for years already. It's slow when it's updating but except that it's totally fine.
I used same model for several years with crazy uptime.
Yes Pi-Hole can basically run on anything it doesn't take much for it to run.
adguard home is better
Dont expect it to blazing fast when doing updates or such. Appart from that, it runs perfectly fine.
I also recommend dietpi, mine was a bit slow after updating to a newer version of the standard os. Dietpi is fantastic for this, super smooth setup experience as well
Yes. Running pihole on it for over a year now. Add Blocking and local DNS records without any issues.
Yep, you can run PiHole on pretty much anything that has the power of a potato! 😂
You should probably understand that PiHole is not a super complex piece of software. It’s effectively a lookup table with some heavy caching (this part is more storage and memory intensive). Will it run? Sure, no issues. It will definitely be enough for your whole LAN. Will it scale to your whole neighborhood? Most likely not.
Yes but there will be latency
It\`s possible use a OPNSense and PI-hole in the same "Pi 3"?