Pi-hole hosting,
without the Pi.
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.
Same Pi-hole, no SD card to die.
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.
Block at the source
DNS-level filtering kills ads before the browser ever sees them. No browser plugin, no per-app rules.
Works on cellular too
Tunnel your phone through WireGuard and your DNS queries land at your Pi-hole, even on LTE.
The dashboard you love
Same Pi-hole UI, same blocklists (Hagezi, OISD, Steven Black). Per-client groups, query log, audit log.
Featherweight
Pi-hole sips RAM and CPU. Pulsar Nano can serve a household plus all their visiting phones.
Pi-hole barely needs anything.
Most users will be at single-digit RAM usage. Nano is the right call unless you're combining it with other services.
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 20 GB SAS SSD
- Easily 30+ devices
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB SAS SSD
- Room for a tunnel + DNS combo
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB SAS SSD
- Pi-hole + VPN + Vaultwarden + more
From zero to DNS-blocking in 10 minutes.
The official one-liner installer does almost everything.
- A Pulsar67 VPS (Pulsar Nano is plenty)
- Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04 (Pi-hole officially supports both)
- The installer:
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash - A WireGuard or OpenVPN tunnel so your devices reach Pi-hole securely (never expose port 53 to the open internet)
- A favorite blocklist or two - we like Hagezi Pro for the "everything but breakage" feel
- Optional: Unbound for recursive resolution so you stop leaking queries to Google/Cloudflare
A DNS server that actually stays up.
SAS SSD = fast queries
Pi-hole's gravity database and FTL DNS both touch disk. SAS SSD means sub-millisecond resolution times.
99.9% uptime SLA
Your Pi could die. Your Pulsar67 VPS is covered by a documented uptime SLA.
Snapshot before tweaks
About to test a new blocklist? Snapshot first. Roll back if it blocks too much traffic.
Your queries, private
We don't inspect your DNS. Your blocked-domain list is your business, not a product we sell.
Ready to block ads everywhere?
Pulsar Nano + Pi-hole + WireGuard = ad-free DNS on every device, on every network, anywhere on earth.