Before clicking, I already knew this would lead to NextDNS. Turns out, my experiences were quite similar. Sadly, my beloved RPI is just sitting idle these days. Maybe I’m just a bad admin, and that caused my problems. Probably…
Anyway, I really prefer to use SAAS for this purpose. You could use any DNS you like, doesn’t have to be this one. If you’re the kind of pi admin who has the time and energy, running your own pi-hole is still probably the best option though.
Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.
Well, tbh I did the same (switched to a competitor, not to NextDNS). Hosting my own recursive DNS with Adguard and DoH (to use it outside of my LAN) lead to strange unexpected errors and downtime, and my family was not happy about that. Now me RPi is still serving me stuff, but DNS is outsourced.
I use both. I have NextDNS for mobile and PiHole for the local Intranet. A VPN to the home network for DNS did not work well enough for me.
What was this guy doing to break his pihole all the time? I can’t remember the last time I logged into mine at all.
I use Technitium DNS server on a mini PC to serve the same function as a Pi-Hole, and it works flawlessly.
