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0 pointsmartin_a1y ago0 comments

I think my PiHole is up for 3+ years on a Raspberry Pi dedicated to that task. Did not fail once since then, so not sure if "DNS is going down" is really an issue. But maybe I've got survivorship bias.

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brummm1y ago

Living in a North American city with power wires being above ground, I have had so many power outages in the last five year, it was kind of a crazy thing to get used to. My Pi would not deal well with power outages when running through the SD card and so I stopped using it.

eldaisfish1y ago

I've had a raspberry pi and pihole going on the same SD card for approximately seven years now.

I also regularly reboot the pi by simply cycling power.

The solution was fairly simple. Send the linux log files to /dev/null (or whatever it is actually called, i.e. RAM) and disable query logging in pihole.

That's it. Helps greatly!

sizzle1y ago

I ran it on an old laptop and never had issues. The extra ram and cpu + actual disk hd gave me ~99% uptime even after power outage no sd card corruption. Laptop auto rebooted on crash too.

mrmuagi1y ago

I live in Vancouver BC, we have a power outage every 1-2 years due to high winds or fallen power poles. I noticed some devices on my home network whilst connected to power have power quality issues too, no doubt a UPS would help here.

distances1y ago

What's the concern about power outages? My Pi-hole is back online much faster than my router.

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