Why we built LynxTrac: remote access without VPN headaches
The short version of why we ended up building our own remote-access platform instead of subscribing to yet another VPN. Mostly a story about tired ops people.
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The short version of why we ended up building our own remote-access platform instead of subscribing to yet another VPN. Mostly a story about tired ops people.
One binary covers monitoring, remote access, log shipping, and deployments. Keeping it under 15 MB and well under 1% CPU took some specific design choices.
The actual reasons teams give when we ask them, not a marketing tier-list. Some of them surprised us.
A modern RMM has to do more than check boxes; it has to compress the whole IT operating loop. LynxTrac is designed around that reality, and the choices are worth unpacking.
A walkthrough of the specific places a unified platform is simpler than stitched-together tools, and a few places where the stitched approach is actually fine.
A quick note on what LynxTrac is, why we built it, and who we think it's for. No launch-day hype, just the parts we think actually matter.