This is my first time I am working with a web server. I have a .py programme which is my Tornado server that successfully handles requests. I have tested it out on my local machine and then sent it to my hosting. I ran the programme in an SSH-session and it worked perfectly fine, but after I had quit the SSH-session, the Tornado server stopped. Now I would really like to know what is the right way to run the Tornado service on my server.
It primarily depends on he type of deployment you have in mind. If you have a full server available you can use supervisor, as suggested by billy_lu; for a more robust setup you may put your Tornado server behind Nginx acting as a load balancer.
On the other hand, some providers don't give you full access, and require Python web apps to serve using the WSGI protocol; a good example is Google App Engine. In this case you need to wrap your Tornado app in a WSGIAdapter; something like this:
if __name__ == '__main__':
import tornado.httpserver
http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(app)
http_server.listen(options.server_port, address=options.server_address)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
else:
import tornado.wsgi
app = tornado.wsgi.WSGIAdapter(app)