I was having some trouble with the forever module failing on some of my node applications and was getting quite frustrated. Granted I am probably ignorant to the real issue but I am very impatient and quick to Google for solutions.
With that being said I came across an awesome process manager for node with some great features.
It's called pm2
pm2 is a process manager for Node apps with a builtin load-balancer
Features:
- Builtin load-balancer (using the node cluster module)
- Script daemonization
- 0s downtime reload
- Startup scripts for Ubuntu and CentOS
- Stop unstable process (avoid infinite loop)
- Monitoring in console
- HTTP API
- Remote control and real time interface API
I am currently using it to keep this blog running.
It's very easy to use and I haven't encountered any problems yet. Check out their github repo @ https://github.com/Unitech/pm2