Just in case you don’t know it, Monit is a really neat tool for UNIX and alike systems, helping to manage and check a whole lot of stuff, including daemons, files and processes.
The best and preferable way to manage many Monit instances is to buy the M/Monit software, made by the same team and allowing to support their great work. But, in some situations you can’t get M/Monit and one might find useful the following quick’n dirty Apache‘s mod_rewrite tip.