Editorial desk
PiHoleHQ Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes PiHoleHQ. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- 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 publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (4)
- Getting Started
Pi-hole Hardware Requirements and What to Buy
The documented minimums for a Pi-hole host, why storage endurance matters far more than CPU, and how to size memory against the blocklists you plan to load.
- Comparisons
Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: How They Differ
Both sinkhole DNS the same way, so the real differences are encrypted DNS, packaging, privileges, and configuration surface. A documentation-based comparison.
- Troubleshooting
Pi-hole Not Blocking Ads: How to Diagnose It
A step-by-step diagnostic order for a Pi-hole that stopped blocking, from checking whether queries arrive at all to clients that encrypt DNS and bypass it.
- Getting Started
What a Pi-hole DNS Sinkhole Can and Cannot Block
How DNS-level blocking works, why some ads still get through, and the network decisions that determine whether Pi-hole ever sees your traffic at all.