I have 6 servers: four old-school Pro, two recently upgraded from Starter and Unleashed to Lifetime (so I can upgrade), all were registered with Unraid Connect. The largest is a 50 bay system with about 42 of the bays full running an Epyc 32c/64t 256gb ram SAS with a few SATA system, a 12 bay ALL SATA HDD 3xNVME 3900x 64gb ram, 8 bay 5700g 32g SATA/NVME, a 6 bay SATA/NVME experimental box I made out of a Lenovo 920q using a 3d printed case, a newer Ryzen 5 8500g all NVME/SSD build, down to a measely 4 bay i5 6600K SATA/NVME box.

I know it's not the hardware, because it's so varied, and the behavior is consistent across the board. I know it's not the new internal boot feature doing this, as there is only one system doing that right now, the 8500g box.

For a long time I've had issues with this plugin working, and for the most part, some machines were staying online, and others weren't externally accessible, but internally accessible. However, I've ran into an issue lately where the web gui for my servers locally would all stop working, I'm talking about "Tower.local" in the browser, not just using Connect. This behavior is extremely consistent as of late. It's never happened before, either, even when remote access was wonky in the last few years.

I've been using unraid for several years now, and it's always been a battle with Unraid Connect and remote access. Most of the time I'll just remote in to one of my VMs, get on the local system gui using that, and reboot, that solves it, I get access to my gui again from remote. But now... it's literally killing my gui entirely. I have one server that has the ability (for dockers) to be rebooted using a discord channel command, and I know my dockers keep working without issue when the GUI becomes unresponsive. I know it's not docker doing it as 2 of those servers don't run ANY dockers or VMs of consequence or at all. I've tried shutting down docker/vm to see if it affects the issue. It doesn't.

This week I got fed up with it because this has been happening for weeks, and decided to see if the Connect plugin is the issue I've been having with the WebGui being unavailable (again, I'm talking about locally mind you, not just remote). So, I rebooted my machines (like I have to at least once every day or so, never going more than 2-3 days before this happens at the most), and removed the connect plugin from 2 of my machines yesterday afternoon. The machines will show up green when this happens, but you can't get to their UI login page, no matter what URL you use, local or otherwise.

Anyway, I'm rambling here... Long story short:
I remove Connect form 2 machines yesterday after rebooting all 6 and verify Connect and local WebUI was working again.
I get up this morning, and guess what... the 4 I didn't remove it from... no access to the GUI in any way. The two I did? Still up and running. Putty in and reboot, blam, back.

I've removed it from my other four. Looks like I'm done with this plugin for a few versions.

Oh, fyi, the problem doesn't happen with one specific version of Unraid. I've got machines from 7.2.3 on up to the new RC for 7.3. They ALL do it. It's not Unraid versions, it's the Connect plugin for sure.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by KiiskiDR

Day 9: Still no further lockups of my web ui on any of my servers.