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What about Pi-hole as a service? Surely someone could set up Pi-hole or similar as a service. $5 a month or something similar. You could point your home network

What about Pi-hole as a service? Surely someone could set up Pi-hole or similar as a service. $5 a month or something similar. You could point your home network and mobile device to the service.

xwdv 7y ago
Some VPNs do this already.
- stirfrykitty 7y ago
  Thanks for the option. I know some VPNs do this, but what about having something like Pi-hole as a paid service. Being that hosting and bandwidth for said hosting is dirt cheap, how difficult and/or legal would it be to set up a service for this? Some web hosting companies tout "unlimited" bandwidth. Would this fall afoul of their notions. A friend tried this with a DO Droplet, but the Google Pixel does not allow changing of the DNS servers. Thoughts? * Editing to say I found this. Some nice gentleman is allowing this for anyone who would like to use it. I cannot vouch for the safety of said link, but here it is: https://freek.ws/public-pi-hole/ https://freek.ws/public-pi-hole/
  - cr0sh 7y ago
    Check the comments on that public pi-hole link; the guy gives a few "tips" (in the form of a paste of shell commands and apache config changes - so you'll have to understand all of that) on how to begin to set up your own "public pi-hole" if you don't trust his. The greatest issue seems to be whether your hosting service will allow you set a server up (droplet or raspi host) to be a DNS server; his changes in the paste seem to be to mitigate the issues that could come from allowing it. While I've done my fair share of apache config editing and other sysadmin tasks (for my own hobbyist purposes mainly), I'd still do a ton of research on the changes listed to figure out whether they will do what they're supposed to, and whether there are any other things to apply as well. Lastly - I wonder if you could set this up (on a raspi of course) and let it be public facing on your home network? That is - would say comcast or cox allow it (technically, they don't allow any servers, but I've heard that at least cox tends to "look the other way" for low-bandwidth home-based stuff; I would think a home-based DNS pi-hole server that only you and maybe trusted family/friends use would fall in that category - ymmv)?
    - stirfrykitty 7y ago
      Thanks for the info. My ISP tends to be fairly benign with stuff like this, and as little bandwidth as DNS lookups use, I doubt it would feature in unless they are blocking DNS, but I guess I could also set up a VPN as well.

What about Pi-hole as a service? Surely someone could set up Pi-hole or similar as a service. $5 a month or something similar. You could point your home network and mobile device to the service.

xwdv 7y ago

Some VPNs do this already.

stirfrykitty 7y ago
Thanks for the option. I know some VPNs do this, but what about having something like Pi-hole as a paid service. Being that hosting and bandwidth for said hosting is dirt cheap, how difficult and/or legal would it be to set up a service for this? Some web hosting companies tout "unlimited" bandwidth. Would this fall afoul of their notions. A friend tried this with a DO Droplet, but the Google Pixel does not allow changing of the DNS servers. Thoughts? * Editing to say I found this. Some nice gentleman is allowing this for anyone who would like to use it. I cannot vouch for the safety of said link, but here it is: https://freek.ws/public-pi-hole/ https://freek.ws/public-pi-hole/
- cr0sh 7y ago
  Check the comments on that public pi-hole link; the guy gives a few "tips" (in the form of a paste of shell commands and apache config changes - so you'll have to understand all of that) on how to begin to set up your own "public pi-hole" if you don't trust his. The greatest issue seems to be whether your hosting service will allow you set a server up (droplet or raspi host) to be a DNS server; his changes in the paste seem to be to mitigate the issues that could come from allowing it. While I've done my fair share of apache config editing and other sysadmin tasks (for my own hobbyist purposes mainly), I'd still do a ton of research on the changes listed to figure out whether they will do what they're supposed to, and whether there are any other things to apply as well. Lastly - I wonder if you could set this up (on a raspi of course) and let it be public facing on your home network? That is - would say comcast or cox allow it (technically, they don't allow any servers, but I've heard that at least cox tends to "look the other way" for low-bandwidth home-based stuff; I would think a home-based DNS pi-hole server that only you and maybe trusted family/friends use would fall in that category - ymmv)?
  - stirfrykitty 7y ago
    Thanks for the info. My ISP tends to be fairly benign with stuff like this, and as little bandwidth as DNS lookups use, I doubt it would feature in unless they are blocking DNS, but I guess I could also set up a VPN as well.