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It is understandable that one would be frustrated with a Raspberry Pi handling critical network services like DNS. I've been running pi-hole in KVM guest virtu
by g_host 2y ago
It is understandable that one would be frustrated with a Raspberry Pi handling critical network services like DNS.
I've been running pi-hole in KVM guest virtual machines for more years than I can remember and never had any problems. I would expect a Raspberry Pi to eventually choke on the demand of providing 24/7 service to a network.
But not everyone has a hypervisor in their basement. Forking over $20/year is definitely better on the budget than buying a server.
But if you already have a server or some reliable hardware in your LAN, there's no good reason to leave anything important up to a Raspberry Pi.
- gerdesj 2y agoYou can set a Pi to have a read only filesystem on card/stick with an overlay with a RAM based filesystem. Ship logs elsewhere or have a second card/stick. A Pi can run for a very long time if you are careful. I run my dad's phones with one with Raspbx. It has two USB sticks in it. Both are bootable and the live one copies itself to the other monthly. Its unlikely that both sticks will die at the same time - glacial speed RAID 1!