Ah right, I thought you were doing it like this

Internet -> Fritzbox + Pihole -> Opnsense -> Home Network

It makes sense now :D

That sounds overly complicated, why not have it all on opnsense instead of 3 different devices?

Is your opnsense unstable? Otherwise regarding network availability you are just introducing unnecessary failure points the network.

I’m curious as why you decided to setup pihole when you already have opnsense. More so that your records are in pihole and not opnsense

No, Hosting has a technical definition. When you rent a server or in this case VPS, the company is hosting you. You can maintain or administer the services but you are never hosting yourself on someone else’s computer.

Is it self hosting? No.

Does it matter? Idk.

By definition, the cloud provider is hosting you. It’s not about being good or bad it just is. If the mod deemed your question to be irrelevant to the community then idk maybe it does matter in this context.