Proper way to start a background process

I am just trying to start up a basic node.js server on a remote machine in a ssh session. This seems to work: nohup node server/server.js & disown Maybe I don't need nohup? what's the "official" way to startup a background process that's not going to get killed by SIGTERM etc? I just want to start a background process then exit the session and have the process continue to run.