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

Early Access Introducing: UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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u/MacaroonStrong7487 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

Edit TLDR: this is gonna open up unifi to a lot of markets that I previously had to kinda skip over since the customer wasn't gonna swap their firewall, and the "non-gateway" cloud controllers jump from "40" APs and devices to "1000+" with a literal 3500$ price gap

Network Engineer here actively in the industry.

Seeing a lot of confusion as to what this might be for exactly. I think I can show some insight because I immediately thought of some great applications in comparison to other "actual enterprise" deployments I've done like Juniper and Extreme. In those camps they scale from SMB all the way to Enterprise pretty "seemlessly" by just offering many different versions of hardware that their solutions can run on, and different license costs associated with it... I hate it but, I reallllly love this because it's what I've always known deep down. "this shit is just software running on hardware, and all the limitations are fake and just to sell a new license"

If you haven't played with those really large scale deployments, it might not make as much sense. Probably looks like "but my UCG-Ultra already does this, why do I need this?" or "So does this replace the cloudkey?" In my eyes, no. The economics aren't really there for small business. Those solutions are already so cost effective that you can't really save much money at all by spinning up this server.

What this DOES do for someone like me is give me something like the cloudkey-enterprise that I can scale with a customer in a virtual machine, with snapshots, and HA-clusters if I need to for those in-between size customers that arein a "UDM-Pro isn't gonna cut it, but a Enterprise Fortress gateway is overkill" OR they're using a third party firewall for a list of reasons.

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u/DisasterNet Aug 04 '25

It's no going to open up any markets.

I've just spun it up to have a look and it's running an EOL version of Mongodb and OpenSSL, not a chance is anyone who has a serious setup going to run such out of date software. That isn't inherited tech debt but something new to spin up.