[kzisme]

Pi-Hole + VPN usually works without issue for me.

[Sohcahtoa82]

This 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]

How expensive is this?

[Sohcahtoa82]

~$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]

Thanks

[more_corn]

Not my solution, but a t2.micro is probably $7/mo.

[brokenmachine]

I'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]

Some folks dislike exposing parts (or any) part of their internal network.

[warrenm]

That's not exactly unique to Android, though ...