AdGuard Home is a network-wide DNS server that blocks ads and trackers for every device that uses it, preinstalled and running behind nginx and ready within minutes of launch. A unique admin password is generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
## AdGuard Home by cloudimg
AdGuard Home is a network-wide DNS server that blocks ads, trackers and malicious domains for every device that points its DNS at the instance, with no client software to install on those devices. Run it for your home, office or lab and every phone, laptop, tablet and smart-TV behind it gets filtered DNS. This Amazon Machine Image delivers AdGuard Home fully installed and running behind an nginx reverse proxy, so a filtering DNS server and its web admin are serving within minutes of launch. The current release available is AdGuard Home 0.107.77.
## Application Stack
AdGuard Home is a single self-contained service that answers DNS on the standard port for both UDP and TCP. Its web admin console binds to the loopback interface and is fronted by nginx on port 80. systemd starts both on boot and restarts them on failure. The configuration, query log, statistics database and downloaded filter lists live on a dedicated data disk.
## Network-wide Filtering
Point your router or an individual device at the instance for DNS and ads and trackers are blocked before they are ever fetched. Browse the built-in blocklists, add your own filtering rules, allow or block specific clients, and watch requests flow through the live query log. Because filtering happens at the DNS layer it protects every device on the network, including those where a browser extension cannot run.
## Secure First Boot
On the first boot of every instance a one shot service generates a fresh admin password unique to that instance, completes the initial setup automatically, and records the credentials in a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.
## cloudimg Support
cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering deployment, HTTPS for the admin console, upstream and filtering configuration, client and access control, storage and upgrade planning.
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