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myelin07/31/20253 repliesview on HN

The self-hosted app never went away; I've been running it for the last 8 years or so, first on a MacBook Pro, then a Raspberry Pi, and now a repurposed HP T620 thin client.

They promote their cloud controller pretty strongly, followed by the Cloud Key, which is their own preinstalled self hosting setup, but the self-hosted UniFi Network server has stuck around. (It changed names a couple of times; it was the "UniFi Controller", then "UniFi Network Application", and now "UniFi Network Server".)


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izacus07/31/2025

Lately they luckly built the console into their router products - UniFi Express, UniFi Cloud Gateways and Dream Machines all have the console builtin and act as controllers.

horsawlarway07/31/2025

And my experience with the cloud key was freaking awful.

Terrible little underpowered device that frequently wouldn't come back up after losing power.

I switched to Aruba because of the cloud key and haven't looked back.

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colechristensen07/31/2025

This is what is confusing about this announcement, is anything actually newly available or is this a rename of the existing thing I've been doing in a container for years?

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