#home-network
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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.
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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.
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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.