Monitoring / Analytics / Infra

AdGuard Home on VPS

Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server

GitHub stars
37640
License
GPL-3.0
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

AdGuard Home hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM512MB Estimated1GB Estimated
CPU1 Estimated1 Estimated
Disk5GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

1 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from AdGuard Home’s recommended RAM of 1GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

NextDNS

AdGuard Home is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to NextDNS. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24. Official README covers automated/manual/Docker installs but publishes no RAM/CPU/磁盘 requirements — 官方未标明,均为基于官方 Docker 默认部署的估算(单二进制 Go 程序,实际内存占用随过滤列表数量和查询日志保留增长). Official Docker image on Docker Hub linked from README.

Data source: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Project repository: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

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