Block Ads Across Your Entire Network: Why AdGuard Home Overtakes (opens in new tab)

Why AdGuard Home Overtook Pi-hole Last month, while attempting to add ad filtering to the internal network of a production ERP system, the Pi-hole configuration escalated to 85% CPU usage within an hour, causing DNS responses to lag. AdGuard Home resolved the same scenario with 3% CPU and an average latency of 15 ms, which is why it has dethroned Pi-hole. In the following sections, I detail the architecture, performance, security features, and my real-world deployment experience with both pro...