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Pi-Hole + VPN usually works without issue for me.
by kzisme 3y ago
Pi-Hole + VPN usually works without issue for me.
- warrenm 3y agoThat's not exactly unique to Android, though ...
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoThis is the way. I have a PiHole running in EC2 and I just VPN into it. The VPN is configured so that only DNS goes through it, so I don't tunnel all my traffic through it and pay for lots of egress. Could easily run the VPN through something local, of course, but I prefer to expose as little as possible on my home network.
- bob_theslob646 3y agoHow expensive is this?
- more_corn 3y agoNot my solution, but a t2.micro is probably $7/mo.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago~$7.20/month for a t3.micro instance + $1.60/month for 20 GB of block storage, plus a penny or two for the bandwidth usage. But you could do it cheaper than that. A t3.nano is ~$3.60/month and could easily handle running the PiHole, and you could probably get away with only 10 GB of block storage, possibly even less. I choose to use a t3.micro and 20 gig because I do other stuff with my instance.
- bob_theslob646 3y agoThanks
- brokenmachine 3y agoI've seen posts about running pihole on an rpi or ubuntu. Are there any advantages to paying a monthly fee to do this when it can be easily done from inside your LAN?
- kzisme 3y agoSome folks dislike exposing parts (or any) part of their internal network.