#Linux - Running a Node Service (Forever) This is based on the excellent post at http://www.exratione.com/2013/02/nodejs-and-forever-as-a-service-simple-upstart-and-init-scripts-for-ubuntu/.
Forever is a useful tool for running a Node.js process with monitoring; it can be set to restart a failed process, and has a few other helpful features along the same lines. In this post you'll find a couple of exceedingly simple scripts for running a Node.js process as a service on Ubuntu using Forever.
##Install Forever Forever must be installed globally.
npm -g install forever