This might be a dumb question due to a lack of my experience, I like the cloud management and will continue to use it, but why was the decision made to not have a controller instance on the route 10 itself? Many home users (including me)have the route 10 as the center of the networking setup, and it would make sense to me that having the local controller software hosted on the route 10 itself, instead of having you to host your own controller on your own server or use a hardware controller
Less functions, more security?
A valid question that has been asked repeatedly. Alta has affirmed their stance on the matter countless times with no future plans to support.
The Alta Controller requires at least 2 GB of RAM to run, and Route10 only has 1 GB. We realize it’s not for everyone, but our highly reliable cloud controller works well for most scenarios, and comes free of charge with your device. We’ve stated multiple times in our ALL calls and with customers that we’d love to release a router that can also be a controller as well, but the natural progression of our network devices has necessitated devices with discreet functionality before we try to load everything into a single device.
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