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I have an MEAN application running on server through Amazon Lightsail. I installed my application in the /projects folder and once I ssh onto the server and run node bin/www (where my main startup scripts live) the site runs perfectly. The issue comes once I close the ssh shell the site goes down (node stops running). Does lightsail / AWS provide any utilities to keep up the server or do I need to manually install a service that keeps it up so I can point a domain at the IP and it is consistently running?

Eugene Lisitsky
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  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26245942/how-do-i-leave-node-js-server-on-ec2-running-forever has been helpful but still looking into how to restart the screen process on reboot – eric MC Nov 14 '17 at 14:34
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    I'm not familiar with lightsail but I would recommend looking at one of pm2, forever, nodedemon or strong-pm. I personally use pm2 for any node servers I run on AWS. – Razzildinho Nov 14 '17 at 14:38
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    [These instructions](http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/startup/) will help with starting the server on boot. – Razzildinho Nov 14 '17 at 14:40

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