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Pretty torn on this one. Really wish I could host Unifi-Protect on prem with my own hardware. Most of their dedicated hardware doesn't even offer raid or decent backup solutions.

It's really a shame because everything else UBNT does is pretty awesome but this one feels pretty shitty.

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The combination of video streaming, bring-your-own-hardware, and closed source is just really difficult to get right. For every customer who has a good experience, there are three others who have some kind of persistent issue. There's just no way to deliver appliance-like reliability for a video server without controlling the hardware and OS.

Isn't that what cloudkey/dream machine covers though? The people who provision the types of systems we're talking about are the same that are familiar with how to spec server hardware.

I had no problem with unifi-video, in fact I had better reliability via ZFS zraid then what the dream machine supports with a single disk.

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