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I have moved my express site on to a free tier Amazon EC2 Server.

I want to have the server live however the only way I know how to run the site is via SSH (via Putty), although the problem with this is that as soon as Putty closes the site is down.

Is there a way around this?

I may be wrong, because I'm fairly new to node.js and express, but I think most people use nginx or some web server to host node.js in. Are you doing this? [SO Post about setup](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5009324/node-js-nginx-and-now) — Davin Tryon, Mar 15 '12 at 23:36
Node.js is capable of serving HTTP content on its own, so running nginx or apache and proxying to node.js isn't necessary (although depending on your architecture is advisable). — djlumley, Mar 15 '12 at 23:41

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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The problem you're (probably) having is that you're not running it as a background process. The correct solution is to convert the process to a daemon, or something similar.

See: Node.js as a background service and https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever

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Thanks I did the npm install forever and was VERY! simple to set up thanks – Nick White Mar 15 '12 at 23:51

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