Remember this previous post where I lamented the sorry state of Pi-Hole and how its developers, despite providing a Docker container which uses Alpine Linux, completely disregarded the Alpine Linux users by not giving them the option to install it on bare metal?
Yeah, I thought about doing it myself because all the steps necessary were already there, but then I figured that if the devs themselves can’t be bothered with it, why the hell should I? More of that in my previous post as well.
Anyway, from time to time I go and check how’s the situation and would you look at that?
Mike Crute, the absolute legend, has now made available a package in Alpine Linux to install Pi-Hole straight from APK.
It is currently in the edge/testing repository, but hopefully it will soon be brought into the stable branches.
And, if you’re wondering, yes, you can absolutely keep your Alpine Linux installation on stable and install single packages from the edge/testing repository without issues (most of the time, anyway).
Just apk add pihole --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/and you’re off to the races.
In my case the first install kind of failed, but maybe that’s because I still had leftovers from an old, borked Pi-Hole installation. I fixed it by simply deleting the package and reinstalling it and it worked without any issues.
I had previously backupped all my settings with the Teleporter and I just fed the backup to the new installation and all went smoothly.
So yeah, after several months using Adguard Home I’m probably switching back to Pi-Hole.
Why, you may ask.
Well, AdGuard has served me well, but honestly it was incredibly resource hungry for absolutely no good reason.
The amount of RAM it gobbled was insane and had forced me to update my DNS server box from 512MB or RAM up to 2GB.
I also didn’t like some things of its UI and, generally speaking, found Pi-Hole much, MUCH faster and easier to use.
Right now I’m testing the new Pi-Hole Alpine Linux package on the small server I have at my beach house and I’m not seeing any issues.
When I get back home I’ll probably switch my DNS Server there back to Pi-Hole as well.
And that’s pretty much all.
Just wanted to give you an update on this.
See ya!