The Pi-hole project has been growing steadily for quite some time now and is been becoming difficult to manage.  I usually spend a few hours a night after my full-time job fielding questions and reviewing pull requests.   Lately, it has been mostly responding to people instead of writing code, because

I always have a lot of fun seeing what people do with their Pi-holes.  This is one of my favorites: a case with a start/stop button and LED indicator lights for the current status of the Pi-hole. I think it would be a lot of fun to combine this

The conundrum: Website content is supported by advertisements, but you don’t want to see them.  But when you block ads, you are costing your favorite sites money. The solution:  Soon, there will be a way to make everyone happy.  Users can pay a subscription to support both the

My C.H.I.P. microcomputer just shipped, and as soon as I get it, I am going to try to to turn it into an ad-blocking Pi-hole!  The C.H.I.P. is only $9 and I would like to get it mentioned on their projects page if I

It’s fun to see people finding out the Pi-hole and their comments always make me smile.  Check it out below.  

The updated interface on it’s way. The coding is 90% done, but I have some bugs to fix first.  I prefer to make the software stable before adding new features.  If you would like to help, feel free to submit a pull request.

Since the comments have been getting pretty difficult to track when trying to help people, I have created a FAQ section on pi-hole.net where you can find answers to common questions and even create your own.  I’m happy to answer any questions you have so go ahead and

It was fun to see that the Pi-hole was mentioned on the Security Now podcast. It made me smile that he grasped the “black hole” concept of sending advertisements to “nowhere.”  And despite his understanding, you actually can whitelist domains, but it doesn’t always work the way you might

The Pi-hole blocks ads for your entire network and it does so without any attention from you.  I get comments and emails every day of people saying that they like how well it works.  This is nice because since I know that it is operational, I can work on fun,

Currently, those of you who are running the Pi-hole from the DietPi image have the added benefit of the Web interface, which shows how your advertisement black hole is performing.  Due to an issue, I haven’t included it in the automated installer just yet.  But you can easily add

The Pi-hole blocks ads at before they get to your device and can speed up your network at the same time.  It’s now even easier to install (a forked) Pi-hole powered and automated by DietPi–a slimmed down, optimized version of Raspbian. This burnable SD card image will give

Pi-hole.net has been up for a while but thought I would announce it here.  As of now, information on the Pi-hole is scattered throughout my many blog posts, so having a centralized location should help you find what you need. From that site, I will provide more professional installation

Similar to how you would log into a router to adjust settings, I want to have a Web interface for the Pi-hole.  You could log in to view stats, update the list of domains, and restart the device.  I made a demo of the interface. The demo doesn’t