Load/capacity DNS queries?

Hi

Is there any info on how robust Pi hole can be? Could it handle the load of an environment with 250 devices?

Thanks in advance.

I believe Pi-hole CAN handle it.

The question is if the hardware you have it installed it on, does.

A Raspberry pi, won't handle it (as fast as a more robust computer would) for sure :slight_smile:

Yes, I just found an article that discusses this. Looking forward to trying it out in the office. Thanks.

The largest network I know of using Pi-hole is an environment with 2,500 users using two servers with the following specs:

  • 4 CPU, 2 Core
  • 8 GB RAM

The load on these servers are still quite low.

We also wrote a blog post about this subject some time ago, which may also offer more insight.

https://pi-hole.net/2017/05/24/how-much-traffic-can-pi-hole-handle/

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