You don't need a raspberry pi to run pihole... I have it running in a vm on a machine that is on 24/7 anyways. I installed dietpi as the OS and selected pihol

You don't need a raspberry pi to run pihole... I have it running in a vm on a machine that is on 24/7 anyways. I installed dietpi as the OS and selected pihole in its install options. 10 min later it's up and running. No issues!