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Deploying a node app with Forever is great...until your server restarts unexpectedly. Then your app stops running and you have to re-deploy.

To get around this, we're going to run our node app as an Upstart service. Upstart services are great, because, once started, the system auto-restarts them if they fail, or if the server restarts.

###Step 1: Create a service for your node app

• ssh in as root ssh root@youripaddress
• Create a node-app.conf file in /etc/init
  IMPORTANT: whatever filename you pick is what you will use to start|stop|restart your service i.e. service node-app start

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##Setup your server (this would ideally be done with automated provisioning)

• add a deploy user with password-less ssh see this gist
• install forever npm install -g forever

##Install flightplan

• npm install -g flightplan
• in your project folder npm install flightplan --save-dev
• create a flightplan.js file

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upstream project {
  server 22.22.22.2:3000;
  server 22.22.22.3:3000;
  server 22.22.22.5:3000;
}

server {
  listen 80;

  location / {

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//events - a super-basic Javascript (publish subscribe) pattern

var events = {
  events: {},
  on: function (eventName, fn) {
    this.events[eventName] = this.events[eventName] || [];
    this.events[eventName].push(fn);
  },
  off: function(eventName, fn) {
    if (this.events[eventName]) {