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Stuff Your Pi-Hole From Anywhere

What's this blog post about?

The article discusses how to turn a local ad-blocking tool called Pi-Hole into a globally available app using Fly, an edge network platform. It explains what Pi-Hole is and its benefits in blocking advertising at the DNS level. The author then describes the challenges of taking Pi-Hole on the road and how it can be made more portable by running it as a Docker image. Finally, the article demonstrates how to deploy a global version of Pi-Hole using Fly's edge network, which provides low latency and global availability. The author also shares their Dockerfile and fly.toml file configurations for deploying the app on Fly.

Company
Fly.io

Date published
Oct. 13, 2020

Author(s)
Dj Walker-Morgan

Word count
1198

Language
English

Hacker News points
12


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