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Is it enough ?
mrlongshen
Member
in Help
Hi all.
I would like to ask,
1st Question
I want to run pihole and wireguard.
Is VPS with 512MB enough ?
2nd Question
Should I mix pihole with the wireguard in the same vps ?
I want to use my own DNS. and at the same time an encrypt security which is wireguard..
Please help.. TQ
Comments
For VPN, even VPS with 128 Mb is enough.
This is for openvpn, but I do not this that Wireguard consumes more.
VPN? 64MB is enough
It can run on 32MB possibly.
If you're only using pi-hole to blacklist certain domains, you can just download the blacklist directly and put it in your hosts file.
Pihole claims to need 512MB ram. This is entirely for the frontend bloat, like @black said is fine. wireguard will fit next to it, or just add some swap. no problem to combine it on the same vps if you are comfortable configuring it. note that DOH and DOT might bypass your pihole
Someone claims 16MB is enough.
512MB isn't enough to just run the OS as recommended on modern popular distros. You'll be annoyed when dnf or apt just break one day and you need to update packages one by one...
Also, pihole sucks and regularly breaks. I've moved to NextDNS and haven't looked back.
I have VPN on a 128MB Ubuntu 9 VPS. It takes up like 11 MB of ram rn. So as long as the OS is small you shouldn't have problems.
what
Sorry I meant debian 9 facepalm
breaks ? why ? nextdns is paid.
NextDNS is free up to certain amount. For 1-2 servers, that's fine. I upgraded when I had like 5 nets using it.
Pihole breaks on upgrades, doesn't work with openvz or xen, having to switch git branches, using a modified dnsmasq, etc.
Perhaps they got better, but in the past when reporting bugs, I felt the response was a mix of amateur experience, lack of testing and no fucks to give. "It worked until you implemented this unnecessary change" doesn't get the response you'd think it would.
It's never enough
I don't know pihole but wireguard is a light weight VPN server and you can easily run it under a 128m box.
Its enough, I run pihole and wireguard on a centos7 512mb ram vps and it's running smoothly.
If you cant spare 512MB to spin up a VPS to test it out on your host machine, you got different priorities.