How We Built a Simple Status Monitoring System
Today, there are many tools available for monitoring website and service uptime. However, most of them fall into one of two categories, SaaS platforms or systems that require a dedicated VPS along with complex setup and ongoing maintenance. We wanted to take a different approach.
Our goal was to build an ultra-lightweight and modern monitoring system that:
- works even on shared hosting,
- requires no heavy libraries or dependencies,
- gives users full control over their data.
This is how WebOrbiton was created.
Monitoring That’s Too Heavy
There are countless small projects run by solo developers or small companies. Many of them are personal websites, side projects, or early-stage products that do not generate enough revenue to justify paying for a VPS or maintaining a recurring SaaS subscription just for uptime monitoring.
At the same time very few monitoring tools work reliably on standard shared hosting and those that do are often outdated or no longer maintained
Who Is WebOrbiton For?
WebOrbiton is a great for solo developers, small and medium-sized businesses, indie makers and side-project creators and teams that want to build their own custom solution based on WebOrbiton Status.
How WebOrbiton Works
WebOrbiton is built on PHP and Cron Jobs, which makes it database-free, free from background daemons or workers and compatible with virtually any hosting environment that supports PHP 7.4+.
License and Terms of Use
WebOrbiton is released under a source-available license, meaning the source code is accessible for review, auditing, and modification.
You are free to use WebOrbiton at no cost in both non-commercial and commercial projects, modify the code to suit your needs, use it as a status page for company websites, applications and APIs, online stores and revenue-generating services (ads, subscriptions, services, etc.). Attribution is not required, but always appreciated.
Built With Passion in Poland
WebOrbiton is proudly built and actively developed in Poland by the WebOrbiton Team. Our mission is to deliver reliable, real-time status monitoring while staying lightweight, transparent, and easy to deploy.
The Biggest Limitations of WebOrbiton
Despite active and efficient development, WebOrbiton like any software project has its limitations.
WebOrbiton is an actively developed project. This means that while new features are being introduced, bugs or unexpected issues may occasionally occur, especially in less common hosting environments or configurations.
We continuously work to improve stability, but at its current stage, sporadic failures cannot be completely ruled out. At the moment, WebOrbiton does not fully support monitoring APIs that require generating dynamic or signed request data, rely on complex authentication mechanisms and require real-time token creation or advanced headers.
Extended API monitoring capabilities are planned for future releases, but currently such use cases may require workarounds or external tools.
