10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Pi-hole first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“In 4-5 years of running pi-hole I've had I think 3 complete failures, 2 were due to cheap SD card corruption and one due to a failed upgrade to pihole v6.”
mixed · personal · 4.5 yr · floundy · 2025-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Pi-Hole on my home network and it's amazing. Routinely 18-20% of DNS requests are blocked.”
endorse · personal · plg · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've setup a DigitalOcean instance of PiHole [1] VPN where I have added all the Facebook domains[2] and other add blockers.”
endorse · personal · medius · 2018-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using my pi-hole as my DNS and then also firewall blocking the TV from phoning out on port 53”
neutral · personal · irl_zebra · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a nice Sony Android TV along with a pihole.”
neutral · personal · aceazzameen · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I banned TikTok at the pi.hole level but unfortunately YouTube is sometimes useful.”
neutral · personal · api · 2025-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my LG TV ... has never once showed up in my pi-hole's logs”
neutral · personal · ryukoposting · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an intel NUC hosting homeassistant, pihole, caddy, deluge, jellyfin and a handful of other stuff.”
neutral · personal · Dedime · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is why I mention a pihole; by setting my dns server to something on my local network”
neutral · personal · bazzargh · 2024-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“despite using everything from pihole to on-device firewalls running as root.”
neutral · personal · propogandist · 2021-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?