Pi-hole® - A black hole for Internet Advertisements

The original post: /r/pihole by /u/magic_champignon on 2024-10-09 09:06:27.

Hello my beautiful piholers, any of you use pihole on an Intel compute stick? I have 2 of those laying around and wanted to implement them as pihole. The specs are more than enough: 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, Intel Atom. The 2 questions I'd have:

1. Is this an issue with using such stick with usb3 to ethernet adapter for pihole? I made a dry run (no pihole installed yet) for a few days on ubuntu and the connection seem to be stable (static port on ubuntu server configured with netplan)
2. How would you implement a fail over for those 2 sticks? Configure 2 same piholes and make then 2 separate dns servers on 2 different IP adresses? Or is there some more efficient way of sorting it out? Thanks a lot for the help.