DNS-level ad-blocking that follows you everywhere. Pair Pi-hole on a Pulsar67 VPS with a WireGuard tunnel, then point your phone, laptop, and home devices at the same clean DNS. From $3/mo.
A Raspberry Pi 4 in your basement is a classic until the SD card corrupts, your power flickers, or you leave for a week and the Wi-Fi depends on a tiny board at home.
Running Pi-hole on a VPS gives you the same dashboard, blocklists, and per-client controls, plus uptime, snapshots, and protection that follows you off your home network. Add a WireGuard tunnel and your phone gets ad-free DNS on cellular too.
DNS-level filtering kills ads before the browser ever sees them. No browser plugin, no per-app rules.
Tunnel your phone through WireGuard and your DNS queries land at your Pi-hole, even on LTE.
Same Pi-hole UI, same blocklists (Hagezi, OISD, Steven Black). Per-client groups, query log, audit log.
Pi-hole sips RAM and CPU. Pulsar Nano can serve a household plus all their visiting phones.
Most users will be at single-digit RAM usage. Nano is the right call unless you're combining it with other services.
The official one-liner installer does almost everything.
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bashPi-hole's gravity database and FTL DNS both touch disk. SAS SSD means sub-millisecond resolution times.
Your Pi could die. Your Pulsar67 VPS is covered by a documented uptime SLA.
About to test a new blocklist? Snapshot first. Roll back if it nukes half the internet.
We don't inspect your DNS. Your blocked-domain list is your business, not a product we sell.
Pulsar Nano + Pi-hole + WireGuard = ad-free DNS on every device, on every network, anywhere on earth.
Concrete setup details for the first deploy, the firewall, and the first thing to check when something acts strange.
Do not expose public DNS on 53. Bind Pi-hole to a WireGuard interface and let trusted devices query it through the tunnel.
Nano is enough for Pi-hole, Unbound, and WireGuard for a household or small team.
Pair Pi-hole with WireGuard, use Unbound if you want recursive DNS, and keep the admin UI behind HTTPS or VPN only.
If DNS works on Wi-Fi but not cellular, check the WireGuard AllowedIPs, client DNS setting, and whether Pi-hole listens on the tunnel interface.