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by aembleton 3241 days ago
This is PiHole[1] as a service without any mention about pricing. You can buy a Pi for ~£10 (one off price) and install this for your own network in a few minutes.

1. https://pi-hole.net/
2 comments
adfreelife 3241 days ago
I tried to be transparent about pricing, and the free trial lasts an entire day before resetting to make sure you are comfortable setting it up before purchasing. You are getting a dedicated VPS with every plan, no sharing. So the price includes the overhead there.
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BillinghamJ 3241 days ago
Seems a little weird and highly inefficient to separate them like that, especially use of IPs etc.

Why not just have one large instance?

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diffset 3241 days ago
Wouldn't different people want different things on their whitelist/blacklist? AFAIK Pi-hole doesn't offer a way to do that.
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adfreelife 3241 days ago
That's exactly right. Everyone gets their own white/blacklist, control over logging, etc. And how would you end a subscription if the IP still existed with the software?
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GordonS 3241 days ago
That seems like an incredibly inefficient and wasteful way to do it. Am I missing some justification for this?
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swsieber 3241 days ago
No, it lists the price at the bottom as $9/month.
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0xffff2 3241 days ago
That's hilariously expensive... Never mind Pi-Hole on an actual RPi, I can set up my own VPS running Pi-Hole for half that. Is the effort of setting up Pi-Hole on my own really worth a premium of $4/month?
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