Restarter - Background

Restarter was first developed many years ago as a tool to keep our Counter-Strike game servers up and running. Everyone that has had an online gameserver knows that it crashes from time to time, especially if you are using some 3rd party plugin and if it does not come online quickly, the players will find another server and will in most cases never come back. With the help of Restarter, we minimized the downtime of our servers significantly which resulted in users that were satisfied with our online availability and kept coming back. We later discovered that people where using Restarter for monitoring and restarting different server applications which encouraged us to focus the development at a wider user base. As of today, Restarter is a generic monitoring, restarting and notifying tool that suits any window or console based application.