Various scripts and examples for keeping things running and making life easier

Checks if your node.js app is running, starts it if it's not. In this form it's only useful if you only have 1 running on the machine at a time, but a good starting point to expand out to cover multiple scripts.

nb: requires forever to be installed

  $ npm install -g forever

Checks if your nginx instance is running, starts it if it's not.

Checks if your redis-server instance is running, starts it if it's not. In this form it's only useful if you only have 1 running on the machine at a time, but a good starting point to expand out to cover multiple instances.

An example crontab entry to run each of the above scripts every minute.