Scaling up a large UniFi deployment can more often than not, require significant infrastructure consideration and upgrades. Once you start adding 100s of UniFi access points, switches and gateways to any controller, whether it be cloud based or on premise, the hardware specifications need to be addressed and also, how you manage them.

With HostiFi fully managed UniFi cloud hosting, this allows IT teams to focus on managing networks rather than infrastructure.

We test the latest UniFi updates for issues, have dedicated support on hand and take regular backups. Plans start at just $9 per month and are built to scale with you.

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Get everything centrally managed

The first step is to move to a centrally managed UniFi controller, whether that be self-hosted or by using HostiFi with our flexible plans. Moving from multiple instances of UniFi first can save a lot of future headaches, such as user and configuration management.

Standardise a consistant naming scheme

As more sites come online, deciding on a coherent device and site naming scheme. This can also extend to VLAN naming and SSIDs across every single site, so no matter who deals with each site - it can be familiar to use.

Keep track of users

As your business scales up, keeping track who should have access to your UniFi server is more important than ever. People can make accidental changes and prevous employees might still have access.

Set up limited admin access when appropriate and UniFi also has view only roles too.

When to move to a centralised UniFi controller?

If you start to install a large and wide deployment on an existing hardware, day-to-day tasks such as retrieving logs, checking what is online and doing updates could slow down. The best time to move to a centralised and cloud managed UniFi controller is doing it as early as possible or when you realise that more and more devices and being installed as time goes on.

Trying to migrate a slow and underperforming server can be quite difficult and also, consolidating multiple UniFi Dream Machines into one server can be time consuming.

Why Many Businesses Choose Managed UniFi Hosting

Instead of maintaining servers, many businesses have decided to use use managed UniFi controller hosting instead.

HostiFi provides fully managed UniFi cloud hosting, with expert engineer support, managed backups and rigorous testing for new UniFi updates.