If you want to container your services better, then systemd is a good choice; it has plenty of isolation options to secure yourself against misbehaving code. By

If you want to container your services better, then systemd is a good choice; it has plenty of isolation options to secure yourself against misbehaving code. By default systemd will not leave any orphans lying around in your system if the service dies unexpectedly. You can also manage much more complex dependency situations (like two services being dependent on each other and requiring a restart of both if one crashes). Systemd Timers are also much more robust and predictable than piling scripts on top of cron, I use them extensively for managing backups on both servers and desktops with automatic reporting for failures.