On the server side of life:
Have you ever heard of Pi-Hole? It's an ad-blocker that covers all clients, network wide. Check it out. Pi-Hole
Yes I've heard of it but the interest has never gone any further.....I have read your howto on it, installing in Docker....been trying to work out how to implement it.
I have the main OMV which also runs my W7 VM and I have the pi which does the rysnc...the pi is only on when I need it, and with the main OMV, each month I re image to a like for like USB this can take a few hours.....so to me the pi would be the obvious choice and as I can't re direct DNS through my router that would mean either setting DNS on each individual piece of hardware or turn off DHCP on the router and use Pi-Hole....or as I use a VDSL Modem in front of my router (I don't have too, it's just that the modem connection is more stable) use the Modem DHCP which does allow me to specify a DNS server in it's settings.