It’s great, I spent 2 years finding perfect CSI for homelab and landed on Piraeus. The best part is you get full read performance of your local disk so I didn’t have to use 10G, write are limited by network link between nodes. But that hasn’t been a problem for me. Also, they’re super responsive for any issues/bugs you hit.

Let me know if you have any specific questions about this.

https://www.usememos.com/ is another option that’s super light weight and self hostable.

I would recommend Adguard instead of pihole. It’s a lot lighter, and being written in go its very efficient.