A simple, yet very useful tool to manage one or many gameservers in one place. For supported servers/protocols, ServerChecker directly communicates with the server and will restart it upon a failure - even if the process is still running.

The original author of this software seems to have abandoned it, as there was no update for quite some time and now even the webpage is no longer reachable.

The author of this software notified me of a complete rewrite of this software, see:

https://github.com/H1GHGuY/ServerCheckerV4

It contains a lot of new features, like remote control and running as as service, all of which is not supported by this version.

For Visual Studio 2013 (and above), the Multibyte MFC Library is required:

https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=40770

This version should be running fine on Windows XP and above (used by myself on Windows Server 2008 R2).

For the most part, the software should be self-explanatory. If ServerChecker keeps restarting a process over and over, while the server should be running fine, it may be the case that the protocol is outdated and thus ServerChecker cannot successfully communicate with the server, which will then trigger a restart. If this happens, choose "Normal Program". This will only restart the server if the process crashes/exits.

Note that Windows Error Reporting and everything else that may require user interaction should be disabled, otherwise ServerChecker may not recognize that a process crashed, because it still seems to be running (but actually Windows wants you to choose whether you want to send an error report or not).

For more information on this topic, see:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754364.aspx

Pre-built binaries can be found here:

https://github.com/m-ober/ServerChecker/releases

ServerChecker will keep supported servers up and running Copyright (C) 2005 [DumB]H!GHGuY

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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