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Does a pihole setup not slow down your connectivity? Been looking into it but I'm very much a novice with my raspberry pi. I do want to use it for something cool other than just sitting around.
And my question is only deepened by the fact that I have a synology box as well. I could use pihole on that instead of my raspberry pi, right?
Easily, I went from through several gen of pi and now run it on docker on my Synology.
As mentioned, it's just a DNS server (at its core) and can actually make things faster as you will no longer download ads.
There are some getting used to things. Some url shorteners (constant contact) don't work and sponsored Google search results won't work. But the QOL is worth it.
a tor exit node :P /s
@jaackf
SyncThing. It's the best sort of selfhosted program. You set it up once and then never think about it because it just keeps quietly doing what you wanted.
Wikis can be great if you've got a few folks that need to coordinate information.
An RSS reader/aggregator.
Portainer and a decent docker lab box. I use a template list from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xneo1/portainer_templates/master/Template/template.json as a base kit, but beyond that creating a pile of compose scripts and having the ability to put up and down services from a fairly simple GUI just to test them out is amazing. It's the simplest way I've found to just try an app, and either keep or toss it with minimal cleanup and reset of a box.
For someone completely new to self-hosting things, what is a good entry hardware setup look like? Or am I just keeping my daily PC on all the time?