The original post: /r/pihole by /u/Binx8d6 on 2025-03-13 14:30:03.

Been running pihole on a raspi zero w for a while. The performance has been very spotty. Sometimes basic tasks like opening YouTube or even opening the pihole website itself for example takes waaay longer than it would if I was connected to my default dns servers on iPhone. I have gigabit internet which wirelessly translates to maybe 300ish mbps which is still fine for 4k video streaming. I have received many warnings in the pihole webpage about system loads being over 1.2 or something. Every now and then no websites or apps work and I have to ssh into the pi and apt update and update pihole and it seems to work after. I’m curious if I should install pihole on my pi 4b. Would I get better performance? Would it be better if connected by Ethernet? Most posts I can find are from half a decade ago so I’m not sure how accurate they are today.