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CronShieldLabs.com - A SaaS Monitoring Platform
I designed and developed CronShieldLabs.com as a lightweight SaaS platform that helps developers, agencies and online businesses detect silent failures across their digital services.
The platform combines five monitoring functions within one secure dashboard: cron heartbeat monitoring, website uptime and response-time checks, SSL certificate tracking, domain-expiry monitoring and DNS-change detection. Users can create and manage monitors, review historical results and receive failure, recovery and expiry notifications.
I developed the application using PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, HTML and CSS, with scheduled server-side processes handling automated checks. The architecture includes secure authentication, account-based data isolation, CSRF protection, prepared database queries, rate limiting and private configuration stored outside the public website directory.
CronShieldLabs.com also includes Free, Pro and Business subscription plans, manual Binance Pay verification, an administrator dashboard, registered-user management and service limits based on each customer’s plan.
A major technical consideration was securing website checks against private-network access and unsafe redirects. The platform validates public destinations, blocks private and reserved addresses and rechecks redirect targets before connecting.
The project was designed as a cost-efficient shared-hosting MVP with a clear expansion path. Future opportunities include branded public status pages, API and keyword monitoring, Telegram and webhook alerts, team accounts, incident management, multi-location checks and automated subscription billing.
CronShieldLabs.com demonstrates my ability to design a complete SaaS product from public marketing pages and secure authentication to database architecture, background monitoring processes, payment workflows and future commercial planning.
Website: https://cronshieldlabs.com
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Full case study on Behance: https://lnkd.in/dNd_PRqu
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