Alternative to Screenconnect (and Mesh Central)
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We currently use Mesh Central as our primary software for remoting into machines.
We currently use ScreenConnect as a backup solution (when Mesh has problems, etc.)However, ScreenConnect requires a Windows server (it technically works on Linux, but is not supported and for many reasons has poor performance).
I'm looking for suggestions for an alternate to Screenconnect that isn't Mesh Central. We have about 10 users and 2500 machines. I would like to host myself on something like VULTR.
SELF HOSTED, LOW COST or FREE is a HUGE plus.
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Back in the day there was LogMeIn, but they lied about being free and it became very costly and difficult for people to get away from it. I've yet to encounter any competitor to MeshCentral that sits in the same space.
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These aren't necessarily Mesh Central replacements (one actually uses Mesh Central on the back end) as they're actually RMMs.
The first one that comes to mind, but is the one I haven't used myself yet, is RustDesk. It's completely self hosted, and includes clients for Windows, Linux and MAC. There is a completely free OSS version, and then the licensed versions are very reasonably prices imo. I'm not sure what the differentiators are between the OSS and different paid for versions.
The second one is TacticalRMM. This is the one that uses MeshCentral as the back end remote access, but you never see MeshCentral unless you go looking for it. So depending on what the issues are pushing you away from MeshCentral are, it may be a hard no-go for you. Only provides Windows clients for free, MAC and Linux clients are the only things you pay for.
Both would be way more functionality than what I remember ScreenConnect or Mesh Central making available themselves.
Please do let us know what you end up choosing.
