You’re getting hate but you’re right. Friendliness in tech forums is nearly nonexistent.
You’re getting hate but you’re right. Friendliness in tech forums is nearly nonexistent.
1000x this.
What I like about running a dedicated physical deployment of pihole (and only pihole) is better reliability, especially when using at for DNS. If a VM host has any issues, the network will lose DNS services. This is much more likely to occur the more layers and services you run on that host.
A friend recently had this happen while they weren’t home and their family went mad as they lost useful internet access - some necessary for remote work.
Being encouraged to learn about the basics isn’t gatekeeping, it’s just sound technical advice. Self hosting can be great, but when you shift critical services/infrastructure and something goes south you expose yourself to some serious harm (think self-hosting your password management), or perhaps leave yourself open and vulnerable to threats you don’t understand.
Having access to easier/friendlier tools is great, but using them without fundamental understanding is risky.
You sure you mean bare metal here? Bare metal means no OS.
And you don’t even need an account to watch stuff? Amazing.