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rubenv - Can you comment at all on using something like monit to watch node processes - we leverage it fairly heavily on our servers but have not really gone through as many steps as you have here. We use upstart to handle starts, stops, and restarts, and monit to watch for crashes.

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Monit falls in the category of forever: it's a duplication of your process manager. I think you can do some of these things with upstart as well.

If you are currently running Ubuntu and use upstart, by all means leave it like that: don't fix it if it ain't broken.

But do know that you miss out on some very nice things :-)

It does look that way, yes - some of the stuff you point out looks great and is worthy of consideration. I just was wondering if maybe we were way off base in our mechanisms - we are far from web ops specialists by any means.

Originally we did just purely use upstart to control things but it was pretty dreadful at doing certain things compared to monit, and we have a lot of familiarity with monit from our embedded hardware projects.

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