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I've been self-hosting for years, but with a recent move comes a recent opportunity to do my network a bit differently. I'm now running a capable OpenWRT router, and support for AdGuard Home is practically built into OpenWRT. I just needed to configure it right and set it up, but the documentation was comprehensive enough.
For years I had kept a Debian VM for Pi-Hole running. I kept it ultra lean with a cloud kernel and 3 gb of disk space and 160MB of RAM, just so it could control its own network stack. And I'd set devices to manually use its IP address to be covered. AGH seems to be about the same exact thing as Pi-Hole. With my new setup the entire network is covered automatically without having to configure any device. And yes, I know I could've done the same before by forwarding the DNS lookups to the Pi-Hole, but I was always afraid it would cause a problem for me and I'd need an easy way to back out of the adblocking. Subjectively, over about 6 years, I only had a couple worthless websites that blocked me out.
I haven't yet gotten to the point where I'm trying to also to intercept hardcoded DNS lookups, but soon... It's not urgent for me because I don't have sinister devices that do that.