NodeJS server configuration best practices

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#Best practices when running Node.js with port 80 (Ubuntu / Linode):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16573668/best-practices-when-running-node-js-with-port-80-ubuntu-linode

# Running stuff in background, handling child processes, storing PIDs etc.:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#How_do_I_kill_a_process_by_name.3F__I_need_to_get_the_PID_out_of_ps_aux_.7C_grep_....

# Git for website management
http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/210851/how-to-make-a-git-push-update-files-on-your-web-host
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/883878/update-website-with-a-single-command-git-push-instead-of-ftp-drag-and-dropping

# Enabling browser caching
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16096578/how-to-cache-a-single-resource-with-express-nodejs

# start things on linux startup
/etc/rc.local


# start server not as root
sudo start-stop-daemon --start --chuid justgoscha --exec startup.sh --chdir /opt/node-servers/watchnext/

# check if the user is really not root ...should be above 1000
ps aux | grep yourscript

# log rotation 
logrotate 
config in /etc/logrotate.d