Choosing the Best Hosting for Your UniFi Controller: Hostifi, UniFi, or CloudKey?

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Chapters
00:00 Where to host your controller
00:16 Self Hosted Multisite Controller
01:33 Using a Cloud Key at each client
02:21 UniFi Cloud Hosting
04:12 HostiFi Cloud Hosting

[pakpak]

Put that money into a NAS and self host. Easy to build Unifi docker container and Watchtower to keep it updated.

[guaripolo]

Ah man i had no doubts going with hostifi. Unifi had the service before and decided to just one day drop it. Not cool. So hostifi all the way. Moved my company to hostifi and can't be happier!

[AI-JR]

Dewey, Cheatum and Howe. Oh a wise guy! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Spread Out!

[MrHacross]

After watching your video on Self-Hosting I used to “Glenn’s” script to install the controller on a Ubuntu VM I already had setup for writing Python. Many Thanks for that! New U7 Pro AP connected to a Cisco cat1000 going out a Fortigate. Those New U7 APs are nice and not expensive.

[DekelAsher]

We used to have an onsite controller and we moved away from them after some updates corrupted them, and we needed to reconfigure the site.
Now self-hosting and couldn't be happier

one thing to note: it's a bit more cumbersome to adapt compared to the onsite controller, but it's not a big deal.

[jimbov]

I run mine up in Azure for clients. More flexibility. With Ubiquiti offering undercut pricing compared to Hostifi it has to hurt them long term.

[zacharylewis]

Self hosting with Truenas scale. No issues. Not a fan of their routers. But I enjoy the switches.

[SolaAesir]

One major benefit of using your own domain that you didn't mention is that it allows you to move the controller without needing to go back and set-inform every single device. Just update the dns and you can change where you're self-hosting, hop over to hostify, hop from a hosted service to a self-hosted, move to a VPS, etc.

It's probably obvious to you but might not be to some of your audience, especially the self-hosters. It's really easy to just use an IP when setting up self-hosting but then you decide to move the controller from your NAS to a VM and all of the sudden you have a headache. You should almost always use your own domain if you have one imo.

[SimoAtlas]

1000 devices for 100 per month is good for businesses if support is included. It's a good deal.

[gcs]

My cheap DO droplet that has run for years and years.

[mvp_kryptonite]

At home I upgraded from CK gen 1 to the gen 2 plus. Works well. The battery is cooked and the 2.5 inch drives are terrible so it can do with an upgrade.

[haroldfinch]

For the average home user a dream machine is the most appealing route. Hostify came across as too expensive for me. Managing multiple sites that have like 3 devices in them at the most, for $30 a month you can't beat unifi hosting.

[diceman]

Self hosted for me. One site with about 150 devices between AP's & Switches

[TheMaevian]

I prefer self hosting it in a docker container

[rzjujyz]

Thinking to start using Cloud Key for my home network. Have been having trouble using self-hosting software on pc with more recent controller software updates in fall 2023

[mspencerl]

I've commented on a couple of your videos stating that you should cover the scale out part of TrueNAS scale.

It looks gluster is dead.
So if you could make a mental note to announce or cover whatever they replace it with that would be awesome!

Also I have requested and I feel like others would like to see it as well covering XCPNG XOSAN.
Or XOSANv2 or whatever they're calling it these days
Pretty please! 😂

[ghk]

Good evening, congratulations for the videos you upload, can you help me with what is the most economical solution for an outdoor access point to cover 20-25 mobile devices at the same time for internet browsing (they are rooms for rent).
The internet in the area is max 100mbps and until now I had a nanostation m2 but it does not handle more than 10 devices with anything and the person who sold it to me told me that it is for 40 devices!

[wodnfn]

if i have a lot of devices, i just build a powerful server and manage them all. Or i go with the 5k server

[biffulatr]

After the recent deprecation of the CK gen1's, I started self hosting. I don't know if I'd ever buy one of their standalone controllers again at $200.

[Photoshopuzr]

I got a question, im upgrading my devices and i know that the udmse is easy with the controller and the drive to record video but I feel like im wasting a drive bay going this way so im looking at the UXG-Pro to pair with the cloudkey+ and the 4 bay nvr. will that setup work even better than the udmse? I saw in a video you mention that the firewall settings are the same due to the same controller software, but the UXG-Pro supposed to be like some kind of hardware firewall? I dont care about the money all I want to know which setup is more robust and powerful? 10gig and 25gig bandwidth is a big deal. ooh I know the cloudkey+ also got a hard drive in it also but I love the display on it, I got a vison, but this will let me know if it's a better option. thanks.