Deploy and Host Pi-hole on Railway

The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, advertisements, and trackers — without installing any client-side software. It acts as a network-wide ad blocker that improves privacy and performance across all your devices.

About Hosting Pi-hole

Pi-hole was originally designed to run on small, local devices such as Raspberry Pi or home servers. However, by hosting Pi-hole in the cloud using Railway, you can enjoy its benefits anywhere — without worrying about local uptime, power issues, or limited hardware resources.

When hosted on Railway, Pi-hole can serve as:

• A personal or family-wide DNS filtering solution.
• A remote DNS service for privacy and security.
• A shared service for small teams or internal networks.

Common Use Cases

• Ad-free browsing across all devices by routing DNS queries through your hosted Pi-hole instance.
• Network-level parental control, blocking adult or unsafe domains automatically.
• Privacy protection, filtering out tracking and telemetry domains before they reach your device.
• Lightweight analytics of DNS traffic to monitor and understand your network’s activity.

Dependencies for Pi-hole Hosting

No dependencies

Deployment Dependencies

You may want to consider following this documentation to setup DNS over HTTP (DoH).

Why Deploy Pi-hole on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Pi-hole on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.