Right. I have a Proxmox box sitting switched off where I thought I'd have more use, such as a Home Assistant. But not yet. So don't want to keep it running just for PiHole.There is an argument that you may want to offload anything possible from the router as that is the critical piece to any environment and you want it to be as stable and reliable as possible.Just because you *can* run things on your router, doesn't mean you have to. It may also depend on your router model. I would imagine this works better on some models than it does on others.
Say the extra device wants 10 watts of power. That is 88 kWh per year, which at my rates is slightly above $10. I already have the router burning energy, so might as well have it do the double shift!
My main thing was to observe how PiHole on the router would impact the performance. It does not. So there is absolutely no reason to run it not on the router itself.
