This topic was designed to provide information but also to gather feedback from other pfSense users operating on SSD drives. If you were hoping to make pfSense ultra reliable by adding a SSD then this is a must read, otherwise you could actually decrease ...

This walkthrough uses the DNSBL portion of pfBlockerNG to remove ads/advertising and more importantly, malvertising. It essentially creates a functionality similar to the pi-Hole project except it doesn’t require a separate piece of hardware. Instead, you just use your pfSense + pfBlockerNG! If you're interested in a write-up on installing/configuring the pi-hole on Ubuntu, I have one here. Please note this walkthrough is for the devel version of pfBlockerNG. The pfBlockerNG-devel package is in the standard list of available packages…