Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
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Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
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#2How is this different from or any better than Ubiquiti's Cloud Controller hosting?
Also based on your pricing it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key if you plan to use your devices longer than 10 months.
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#3This seems like a weird product, considering its just a single-use VPS. If you're using a DC with NPS (or not, just plain ol PSK) in the sky, your ubiquiti controller just goes on there anyway.
Some clients just allow access via site-to-site vpns. Seems like a better solution than paying for a VPS to host free software
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#4How is this different from or any better than Ubiquiti's Cloud Controller hosting? Also based on your pricing it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key if you plan to use your devices longer than 10 months.
Central control of multiple sites without having to mess with VPNs.
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#5How is this different from or any better than Ubiquiti's Cloud Controller hosting? Also based on your pricing it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key if you plan to use your devices longer than 10 months.
Instead of having to configure potentially tens of different site-to-site VPN connections to connect every site to your head office where you controller is located, you're hosting it on the internet which makes implementation easier.
I would never ever trust a Ubiquiti product being open on the internet though - especially their software products. Too many issues with their firmware on their "carrier"-classed radios, as well as buggy integration with UNMS makes me a bit wary.
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#6This is a great passive income type of business.
Here's a nearly identical version that a number of folks use: https://hostifi.net/
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#7This seems like a weird product, considering its just a single-use VPS. If you're using a DC with NPS (or not, just plain ol PSK) in the sky, your ubiquiti controller just goes on there anyway. Some clients just allow access via site-to-site vpns. Seems like a better solution than paying for a VPS to host free software
Fair point..."free" often means "without regard for time" however. Even though I don't have a use for this one, I pay for various services which I could do/run myself, because I only have 24 hours a day.
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#8I've been running my controller on a raspberry pi for a few years without any issues
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#9I've been running my controller on a raspberry pi for a few years without any issues
I've been running one in AWS on a micro instance and I don't like running it. I'd have paid for this had I seen it when I was doing this.
Re: Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting
#10How is this different from or any better than Ubiquiti's Cloud Controller hosting? Also based on your pricing it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key if you plan to use your devices longer than 10 months.
Central control of multiple sites without having to mess with VPNs.
Why would you need any vpns?
Especially if the vpns are setup from the controller you create a delicate chicken-and-egg problem. How are you to provision it the first time?
You also open up yourself to the problem of accidentally locking sites out and having to reconfigure each site from within.