How to Setup an Unifi Controller in the Cloud
The Easy Way With Pictures Hosting an Unifi Controller in the cloud is a great way to centralize your Unifi network, especially you manage multiple networks. However, there are quite a few steps and, they are constantly changing due to updates from the various vendors who must all work together in order for this to work. In fact, this is the reason I’m writing this blog. There are already how-tos out there on how to do this, but none of them work. So I made a new one. If it helps you, please leave a comment down below, I appreciate any feedback and love to stay engaged with you guys. Firstly, my instance has been set up using Vultr hosting. Vultr hosting offers competitive pricing for a VPS server, but there are many other providers if you want to go another route. Two things that you need to take into account if you use Vultr though: The first is that Vultr is missing some core components on a fresh install (Java & MongoDB) so we’ll manually install them The second is that the base server only uses an IP v6 address. Make sure to purchase at least a VPS with IPv4 capability This is for 5.10.26 of the controller software. More recent updates may change things I will go over how to set up a Domain name as well Setting up your server in the cloud Creating the server We need to set up and create a server. Create an …