AlwaysUp for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By Core Technologies Consulting

Run your applications 24/7 as a Windows Service to ensure 100% uptime.

AlwaysUp runs your application (32/64-bit executable, batch file, shortcut, java, perl, etc.) as a Windows Service, managing and monitoring it constantly to ensure 100% uptime.

It will automatically start your application whenever your computer boots, automatically restart your application if it crashes, hangs, or uses too much memory, and do everything in its power to ensure that your application is available 24/7. Regular, detailed email from AlwaysUp will keep you abreast of performance, crashes, scheduled restarts and other relevant events. AlwaysUp leverages the Windows Services architecture to provide robust, low-level application control in a secure environment. Your application can start without someone having to log on, survive user logons/logoffs, and run entirely without user intervention. No programming is required. And best of all, after years of constant refinement based on client feedback and many thousands of installations on a variety of PCs, AlwaysUp remains a trusted, reliable solution for many large and small businesses worldwide.

AlwaysUp for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: December 27, 2023

Latest update: December 27, 2023

Version: 15.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows Server
Windows 11
Windows 8

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 6,911

Downloads Last Week: 4

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User Reviews

3.8/5

6 User Votes

Works like a charm.
CPedersenGLOctober 3, 2013
Pros
Allows access to the same functionality as other service wrappers, but with better options for configuration, checking and debugging. If you have legacy software, or software not designed to run as a service, this product has a good chance of solving your problem. Quick response to questions posed via. email.
Cons
Not a silver bullet. Have encountered a program that so far still won't run even under AlwaysUp.
Summary
In a perfect world you should not need software like AlwaysUp, but when you do, and you do not have the budget for a complete rewrite of a poorly designed (or just plain old) program, AlwaysUp can be a time saver.
sweeping under carpet only makes your domain dirtier
SamEnglishJune 18, 2013
Pros
- false sense of security (feels warm and fuzzy - like morphine before an amputation!)
Cons
1. Doesn't resolve underlying instability issues 2. Introduces a system dependency on a new 3rd party module 2.1 that cannot be debugged 2.2 that may introduce new errors and issues into your system 2.3 that cannot necessarily be relied upon into the future 3. Further encourages bad system design 4. Further encourages bad management decisions regarding quick fixes in general. Problems need solutions. People need work. Clients need robust solutions. Managers need to spend the money and manhours necessary to achieve desired results PROPERLY. 5. Using this "solution" denies the workforce the opportunity to legitimately work an additional x number of hours. Ironically the underlying instability problems and system-wide bad design decisions will probably resurface as astronomical maintenance costs that the managers blame on their technical staff. Net effect is disappointed clients, technical staff that can't do their jobs PROPERLY, and managers that sabotage their own workers.
Summary
convenient and easy to use
xerces555August 5, 2008
Pros
We've been using this great little package on our servers since 2006. Setup is easy and it just works away in the background. Having it send emails when something goes wrong is super convenient.
Cons
Nothing so far
Summary
Works well, very reliable
a.guy35June 19, 2008
Pros
One of the few shareware progs that I have actually PURCHASED. It just works. Since installing it we don't even care when our crappy software hangs up, Always-Up just restarts it. Saves me a lot of hassle.
Cons
30-day trial wasn't enough
Summary
Restarted the app, but did nothing when it was frozen or hung up.
IBMMANJune 17, 2008
Pros
Does restart failed applications.
Cons
The corporation that I work for bought this thinking that it would stop and restart hung apps. We have purchased another venders product in it's place.
Summary
Set it and forget it
June 8, 2008
Pros
We have Alwaysup on 6 PCs running our mission-critical software (billing app). We have had virtually 100% uptime since installing. No more 3am calls for me!<p>Support is friendly and these guys knows their stuff.
Cons
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