So I was interested in deploying a pi-hole on my network with

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:01:05 Post No. 53672880 [Report]

So I was interested in deploying a pi-hole on my network with a Raspberry Pi.

Being Australian, the cost of the Raspberry Pi was retarded, so I figured I would be better off virtualising it. I've got a pi-hole instance running on a virtual machine on my media server. Headless Debian combined with the pi-hole script and utilities.

Now, this option is significantly less effective than running uBlock Origin. What it does do is provide ad-blocking for my mobile devices and and Xbox, stopping all kinds of bullshit on my network.

So two things /g/:
1. Anyone interested in a quick walk through on how to spin up one of these instances?
2. Anyone got any suggestions for any other cool/useful stuff I could spin up on my network?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:07:43 Post No.53672943
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:07:43 Post No.53672943 [Report]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to use it as a firewall after your router and to set up caching for faster browsing?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:09:09 Post No.53672958
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:09:09 Post No.53672958 [Report]

>>53672943
Just read you don't have the Pi lol

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:10:22 Post No.53672967
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 06:10:22 Post No.53672967 [Report]

>>53672943
I suppose it could be.

I'm on a 120mbps pipe, so I've never been short on speed or bandwidth.

Any suggestions on how best to approach your idea?

>>53672958
Does make me a bit of a sad panda. Not exactly short on hardware though. Will get a three in as soon as is possible.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 08:06:59 Post No.53673956
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 08:06:59 Post No.53673956 [Report]

>>53672880
What is your media server setup?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 08:49:20 Post No.53674374
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 08:49:20 Post No.53674374 [Report]

>>53673956
I've got Sonarr feeding into NZBGet. Sonarr then grabs the file and sorts it into my drives file system. It then sends a command to update Plex which I use to pull content to my TV.

I go direct to file for watching on my PCs though.

Works pretty good.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 13:33:14 Post No.53676837
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 13:33:14 Post No.53676837 [Report]

>>53672880
If you don't have a Pi, why use Pi-hole?
Surely there are native solutions that don't require virtualizing.