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When I first set up Pi-hole at home, I overthought the hardware so badly that my wife just looked at the pile of boxes on the table and asked if “that little thing” was really worth a whole Saturday.
It was a Unbound ever since. That experience convinced me that for most of us tinkering with home networks, the magic is in the config, not in the silicon.
A Practical Sweet Spot
If you want to run Pi-hole with Unbound and maybe a firmware are asking for trouble.
For something that sits at the heart of your network, I am picky; I would rather repurpose an old phone, a $10 thin client, or a known
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