Where To Host Your UniFi Controller and Why

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[@maisumgajo]

Hey Tom, it would be cool to see a video about setting up captive portals, in unify and in pfsense. thanks for the great videos.

[@Enonymouse_]

Thanks this answers a lot of the questions I had about a possible deployment of this for a potential client.

[@zprhansen]

Hey Tom, I absurdly love your KZbin videos, they are positive and informative. After watch several of videos I made the change going from tplink mesh network to ubiquity usg, 24 port switch, and WiFi ac. I run my controller on a HP t620 thin client $35 w/Linux mint 4 gb memory 64gb m.2 nvme hd. Not exactly the fastest pc but cheap to run for sure. I can remote into it monthly/bi-monthly to do manual updates and so forth.

[@fraenkli]

Hey Tom. Can you do a video how you setup your clients VPN so only de Unifi traffic hits you? I would really appreciate that

[@zyongooden5902]

This is an awesome video. Could you provide a checklist of restrictions for the computer or server running the Controller?

[@AlexYrv]

Heaps informative, thanks mate!

[@scholziallvideo]

Hi,

[@b16crxt]

It can also be run on a raspberry pi. I have it installed on a pi zero W that is powered by the usb port on my router (wireless disabled because it got unstable over time), so it's on whenever the network is active. I prefer this to having it on a computer. Much lower power.

[@xbmcnut]

Thanks for the video. I'm attempting your option for my own system and two friends systems and while I'm able to connect their external systems to my UniFi docker instance successfully, my own devices (3 x AP, 4 x SW, 1 x USG) randomly will not reconnect to my controller when the controller is updated. Should I be overriding the Controller Hostname/IP section? At the moment is has just my external domain name (without http or any ports) and 'override inform host...' is not checked.

[@Vision06]

Docker within my lab combined with portainer - a pleasure to use and maintain :)

[@MAhsan-le2nm]

Great work sir

[@iPondrio]

Nice video, is there any way to host the UniFi controller in a Raspberry Pi? I'm thinking that it could be an option for projects that have a small budget

[@MikePowlas]

That is why we like to have the Gen Key controller on-site of each client so we can access it in the cloud remotely from our

[@jakehancock6880]

Do you have a video on how to do the remote setup?

[@JoshuaMeunier13]

I have mine on Docker with Portainer. I have Watchtower monitoring and updating daily. All data for containers are stored using NFS accessible by the Docker system only.

[@sharedknowledge6640]

Another helpful Unifi video. It’s also worth mentioning the controller can run on fairly low end fanless hardware running Linux with no penalty beyond the web UI perhaps being a bit slower. So even a $120 netbook grade laptop works just fine. You can also run it in a VM on various hardware or most anything already running Linux or Windows with minimal impact. So many may already have suitable hardware.

[@razzy1]

I hosted mine on a rasberry pi. Works really well as it can run 24/7 in a closet and still use it for other stuff. Is also cheap

[@walthill3735]

i am wanting to set this up in my home network, i have a modem and that is all i am wanting to get 2 AP for my home do i need any other hardware to set them up?

[@ericzxl]

Nice video!! If the controller on Windows platform died, can I migrate the Unifi APs to a dream machine?

[@ojnunezm]

I like the stickers on your new Lenovo Thinkpad L480 :)