Item: MobaXTerm
Rating: 10
Author: Oleg Liski

Overall Satisfaction with MobaXTerm

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is web service agency and we have access to quite a lot of servers for different clients. There both Windows and linux servers, meaning that you need different tools in order to connect to them.
To make things worse, you have to group them and remember which server does what and which credentials to use for them.

MobaXTerm solves this issue easily.

Pros and Cons

Pros

SSH server connection
RemoteDesktop connections
Grouping of servers to folders
Tabbing interface with ability to move windows outside
Remembering passwords

Cons

Tunnneling configuration is not so easy to use - would be nice to update it
Automatic updates

Return on Investment

No subscription fee: you can purchase it once and use for many years
Easy to use - no need to spend time on learning how to use

Usability

Easy to use (for remote connection software).

However, it misses some easy to use configuration tool for tunneling , that's why point.

Alternatives Considered

SecureCRT and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)

The biggest advantage of MobaXTerm against others is ability to group servers in folders (according to the client, for example) and feature that allows you to connect to all kinds of servers: SSH, SFTP, RDP, WSL,

Also, it is relatively cheap.

Previous I used SecureCRT, but it costs about 200 $/ year, which is too high.
MobaXTerm is 49/69$ and you can use it multiple years.

Key Insights

Do you think MobaXTerm delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with MobaXTerm's feature set?

Yes

Did MobaXTerm live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of MobaXTerm go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MobaXTerm again?

Yes

Other Software Used

PhpStorm, AlmaLinux OS, Windows Server, MySQL

Likelihood to Recommend

MobaXTerm is good if you want to have list of servers and want to easily manage them and connect to them from the same interface. This is especially good for solo developers

MobaXTerm might be not work if you want to share list of connections to the large team with granual control of what can see which server.

MobaXTerm Feature Ratings

Evaluating MobaXTerm and Competitors

Products Replaced

Yes - SecureCRT and Remote Dekstop connection manager, mostly because of price and lacking ability to connect to both ssh and windows servers

Key Differentiators

Ease of Use

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