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This is what I do. I host a controller in AWS on an EC2 instance in my account. It works great.
by cle 6y ago
This is what I do. I host a controller in AWS on an EC2 instance in my account. It works great.
- dijit 6y agoOut of interest, why wouldn't you host it on something like a raspberry pi? Having your local network depend on an external network makes my old school sysadmin bones tingle for some reason.
- gregmac 6y agoThe Ubiquiti controller is not needed for general operation, unless you're using a guest hotspot. Otherwise if it's offline you just lose ability to do configuration and it's data/stats logging.
- julianz 6y agoIt's also needed if you want to have any control over SSID's such as enabling/disabling on a schedule, bandwidth limiting and so on.
- thrixton 6y agoHah, that's a dream world where enabling/disabling SSID's ever worked properly. They have a good UI, good hardware but the software seems half baked. Originally with the switch to the "new settings", the schedules were switched between the AP's and the UDM, not sure about a dedicated cloud controller. Great product, poor QA I think.
- cle 6y agoLaziness? I can just set it up with a couple of clicks and pay almost nothing (it runs on a t2).