Saving RAM on tough servers using daemontools instead of forever.js

etc_init.d_mynodeserver

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/mynodeserver

case "$1" in
  start)
    supervise /var/www/mynodeserver >> /var/log/mynodeserver.com.nodejs.log 2>/var/log/mynodeserver.com.error.log &
    ;;
  stop)
    svc -d /var/www/mynodeserver
    svc -x /var/www/mynodeserver
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/mynodeserver {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

var_www_mynodeserver_run

#!/usr/bin/node
// /var/www/mynodeserver/run

require('./index.js');

See https://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/svc.8.html on how to control your process monitored by supervise.

See https://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/supervise.8.html on what supervise does.

Don't forget to run

$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/mynodeserver
$ sudo update-rc.d mynodeserver defaults