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Fair enough, that sounds similar to the system I maintained for a similar length of time. I came away thinking it was not great - error prone, expensive to run, and hard to keep running reliably - from which I developed the interest in better options that led me to ask the question in this thread. I guess as usual, YMMV.

I've really had great success with eye: https://github.com/kostya/eye

How did you decide between god, monit, upstart, supervisor, etc?