4 engineers on Hacker News describe using daemontools first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have been using daemontools for managing my services on FreeBSD servers that have run 24/7 for almost a quarter of century”
endorse · production · 24 yr · adrian_b · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Why run something terrible (systemd) when we already have something that works really well (daemontools)?”
endorse · production · scurvy · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was actually better to just run the service under daemontools and let the service crash/restart.”
endorse · production · nemothekid · 2015-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If they have a habit of dying and we can't afford that and we can't fix it, we run them from daemontools”
neutral · production · dsr_ · 2023-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?