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> I had nextdns, moved to pihole but the maintenance was frustrating- and I couldn’t use it outside of my home network (without more work with setup).

Maintenance? What maintenance?

I set up my PiHole a couple years ago and haven't touched it since.

Granted, I didn't set mine up on a Pi, I set it up on my EC2 box in AWS. That way, I could have ad blocking on my phone without needing to expose my home network.

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I made the same pihole to NextDNS transition. My pihole worked well for 3 years or so. Well enough that I allowed it to become inaccessible without moving lots of furniture.

Then the SD card died. Instead of digging it out to fix it I tried NextDNS and found it works as good or better while also being less work. Well worth $20 to me.

Worth mentioning that the free plan is well enough, been on it for the past 2 years on all my devices and never reached the paid quota!

That's impressive. A Pi-Hole outage in the middle of Thanksgiving prompted me to sign up for NextDNS the next day, and since then my household has already used 150k of the 300k available for the free tier.

NextDNS' unlimited queries for its paid plan is also a large reason why I picked it over AdGuard with its 10m queries/mo limit. Even if I'll likely never hit that limit, I don't even want to worry about it.

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