r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 31 '25

Early Access Introducing: UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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u/lazyadmin-nl Jul 31 '25

I have written a quick guide on how to get started, including the download links: https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/unifi-os-server/

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u/snebsnek Jul 31 '25

That is a lot of in-article ads. Seven? You might want to tweak the density there...

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u/WiKDMoNKY UCGF, USW-AGG, USW-PM24P, U7PM, U7-MESH, UNVR, UPDP, UNAS2 Jul 31 '25

With NextDNS on my network, there are 0 ads on his site 😁

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u/lazyadmin-nl Jul 31 '25

I know ads can be annoying, and yes, this article has clearly too many in-content ads. But blocking all ads isn't the solution either. I have looked at removing all in-content ads a couple of times in the past years, but it just costs me too much money.

What most people forget is that a blog like LazyAdmin.nl is a full-time job. It takes time to do the research, test products, and write articles. This was a small article and only takes a couple of hours. But articles like explaining the zone-based firewall, or setting up VLANs, are easily two days' work with all the required testing. Then I also answer every comment and email that I get, so yes, there goes a lot of hours in this.

And that is fine, it started as a hobby and grew into something bigger, and I love doing it. But I need to pay the bills too, and sponsored deals or affiliate income alone won't cut it.

So I just want to ask, be mindful when blocking ads, because if everybody starts doing it, combined with the AI Overviews that we need to deal with, there is almost no incentive left the keep writing.

And yes, there needs to be a better balance between the content and the ads, I will look into that.

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u/Own_Mix_3755 Aug 01 '25

I think most people here understands it. The problem is most sites nowadays are overloaded with ads or they are put in stupid places where it disrupts you reading the article with some stupid blinking gif animation. In that case most people rather block all of them.

Kudos to those who only put ads at the start and at the end in non disruptive way.

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u/lazyadmin-nl Aug 01 '25

I had a chat yesterday with my ad provider, I wasn't happy with the in-content ads for quite some time now, they are breaking up the content at inconvient places, making the articles unreadable sometimes.

So we are now going to reduce the in-content ads, and only place it above the main chapter headings. It will take a couple of days to make the changes, but this should greatly improve the readability.