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Not something that would have to be on all the time, but more something that can be off overnight. This question feels like it has an obvious yes/no answer that I'm missing.

Edit: pihole was a bad example

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Simple answer, no.

Long answer, you're going to get annoyed with it on your main machine, things like pihole will have all of your network traffic routed through it, they'll need to be constantly on. Plus with self hosting it's just better to have the server/client setup, you'll thank yourself later.

If cost is a factor, look into an old/used PC, I have old PCs from 10 years ago with linux servers running on them.

If power is a factor, look into a simple raspberry pi, or I like the potatos as well (found on Amazon)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pihole will have all your DNS requests routed through it at least, not all your traffic. But of course without DNS not much traffic is going anywhere anyway.