A blackout this night caused the restart of our RCS server (reminding me that I have to change the batteries of that UPS), and breaking a good record: yesterday it was the 34th uptime day for that server.

Not a big deal for a server, but this is just an old iMac, with 128Mb of RAM, where Radio UserLand has been silently running without a glitch next to Apache and FileMaker. 34 days ago we resarted it after the update to MacOS X 10.1.4.

To be honest, saying that Radio has been running for 34 days without a glitch is not completly correct, Radio did crash, but we have installed a little script that checks every minute if Radio is running and, if it is not, it launches the application. The result is that from time to time we do find a "The Application Radio UserLand unespectedly quit" alert, but the in the meanwhile the script has restarded Radio and everything is up and running.

On this copy of Radio we have also installed RssDistiller, that it's scraping news sites and sites of our competitors every hour and distributing the feeds to all 19 internal Radio users, plus it's where we are running the beta version of our new SharedOutlines server, so every user is polling several outlines a few times per minute.

Not bad for an old iMac, uh?

If you are interested, here's the script we use and instructions on how to install to keep Radio running.