Pi-hole VS Webmin

This is an overreaction, almost to the point of absurdity.

Risks inherent to pipe installers are well understood by many. Using your logic, we should abandon Homebrew [1] (>38k stars on GitHub), PiHole [2] (>46k stars on GitHub), Chef [3], RVM [4], and countless other open source projects that use one-step automated installers (by piping to bash).

A more reasonable response would be to coordinate with the developers to update the docs to provide alternative installation methods, rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

[1] https://brew.sh/

[2] https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

[3] https://docs.chef.io/chef_install_script/#run-the-install-sc...

[4] https://rvm.io/rvm/install

Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives

https://pi-hole.net/

I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS.

Note: This isn't a shill for NextDNS; I love these kinds of projects and think they absolutely should exist, but NextDNS just happens to be one of those dead-simple SaaS tools that is an insanely good value.

0 - https://pi-hole.net/

1 - https://nextdns.io

It definitely IS an option, but at the network level.

https://pi-hole.net/

It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network.

I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background.

Adguard [1] is a decent free option.

I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network.

[0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html

[1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html

[2] https://pi-hole.net/

Are you trying to build a DNS proxy (similar to Pi-hole) that intercepts DNS requests and checks for the ones that look harmful? If so, I would suggest trying to separately build a DNS client and a DNS server, before trying to integrate them together. Start with Beej's Guide to Network Programming if you need to learn the basics of sockets, and then take a look at the documents that define the DNS protocol itself (RFC1034 and RFC1035).

Setup a pi-hole.

It's definitely not as simple as installing an app on your phone, but I run a Pi-hole on my home network, and it does block ads in many games.

I've tried upgrading webmin to the latest using the .sh script `/usr/share/webmin/update-from-repo.sh` and, although nuclear, didn't work!

webmin website can only be accessed on IPv4 only systems but when I tried accessing the website from an IPv6 only system, I got hostname not found. When I did a ping on www.webmin.com, I discovered it has an IPv4 address and no IPv6 address.

Maybe you are looking for this https://www.webmin.com ?

Yes. One VM to house the media (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server, with Samba) and one VM to run Jellyfin (also Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server, with Jellyfin and Caddy). I have Webmin installed on both for easier oversight.

There is already Cockpit mentioned, I use from years Webmin on all my VM's

If you aren't in this to learn a lot, you may want to also consider a web hosting control panel like cPanel (not free), DirectAdmin(not free), webmin + virtualmin (free for multiple sites, virtualmin Pro is not free), Centos webpanel (not FOSS but free for non-Pro), Hestia control panel (FOSS), Plesk Obsidian (not free).

install joomla CMS to your web folder (public_html). And go to browser enter your domain and you will see setup joomla instructions. After all your web site is ready. Then you can customize your web site as you can do. Finally many thanks to developers who work for for Joomla , Virtualmin, Debian, Webmin, Let's Encrypt and more Open Source's organizations. I think people must support such Open Source's organizations My motto is that "World can be better with knowledge". ** I i wish to prepare Youtube serial for more details from start to end **

I must admit, I had to google that. I've never heard of webmin.

What you need then isn't a RMM, it is most likely a server accessible via a web interface. If you want to go the Ubuntu server rout, try out Webmin, I used it for a bit and if work well, but it's not the best.