Comment by random3
2 days ago
So UniFi stack is the better alternative to Ring (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620002)?
Is UniFi the sweetspot for prosumer networking if one wants switches, APs, cameras, etc. without a CCNP?
2 days ago
So UniFi stack is the better alternative to Ring (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620002)?
Is UniFi the sweetspot for prosumer networking if one wants switches, APs, cameras, etc. without a CCNP?
I've been a unifi user for quite a few years, enthusiastically at first and with somewhat more trepidation as of late. They seemed to have some kind of hardware talent exodus a couple years ago, and also when they stopped having self-hostable unifi video and network. I ended up capitulating and just bought a cloud-key but wasn't thrilled.
But yes, they still seem to be the best for small business / homelab type people who want something more than "the AT&T guy put a box behind the couch in 1998 and i don't know where it went after that" but also doesn't want to have to do opnsense or a bunch of that stuff.
And they've managed to regain my enthusiasm a bit by adding plain-ole wireguard (not even teleport, though i do like teleport for my phone) to their managed VPN options, and now by bringing back self-hosting.
My main gripe about lack of self-hosting is, I have a bunch of terabytes just sitting around i could put my video footage of my front lawn on, and it's free real estate. but since i can't (couldn't) self-host video on it, I would've had to pay like hundreds of bucks (or is it thousands?) to get the rackmount video server from them. But now that this is back, hopefully I can switch back to self hosting if my cloudkey ever dies. So that's nice.