About PiHoleHQ
PiHoleHQ covers Pi-hole as a network DNS sinkhole: what a DNS blocklist can and cannot stop, how to size a host and pick storage for it, how FTL memory use grows with the blocklists you load, diagnosing a sinkhole that has stopped blocking, and how it differs from the alternatives.
It is written for people who want ad and tracker blocking at the network level and an honest account of its limits, including the cases where DNS filtering cannot work by design. Sources are the Pi-hole, Unbound and AdGuard Home documentation and the relevant DNS RFCs, linked at the foot of every article so you can check the original.
What is covered here
- Comparisons
- Getting Started
- Troubleshooting
6 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
Alongside the articles there is one interactive tool, the Pi-hole FTL memory and blocklist sizer, which estimates the memory footprint of an install from its blocklist size and query volume. It runs entirely in the browser and collects nothing.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the PiHoleHQ Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@piholehq.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
This site currently runs no affiliate links, no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Nothing on it earns a commission. If that changes, this page and the disclosure page will say so before any such link appears.
The full position is on the disclosure page. Read it before acting on anything here that reads like a buying recommendation.
Related sites
PiHoleHQ is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- ProxmoxGuide - Virtualize with confidence.
- WireGuardLab - WireGuard protocol and deployment guides
- OllamaLab - Local LLM hardware and inference speed.
Contact
Email: hello@piholehq.com
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