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Easter is around the corner, and we decided to create a little Easter hunt for our customers. We will give one of you the chance to win a $15 credit for SashiDo :) All you need to do is guess what’s the new feature we’ve been working on lately. We promise it’s really hot! The winner will be drawn from those who have correctly named the new feature in our comment section below, so don’t forget to check it regularly for updates. HINT: It is something that wi ...

Imagine if there was a way to set up SSL on your website in just one click. How cool would that be? Well with SashiDo and Let's Encrypt now you can easily achieve it! Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit, and it is a one click option for your web app hosted on SashiDo. They let people and organizations around the world obtain, renew, and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Their certificates can be ...

Having a Backup is a matter of great importance. Just recently GitLab reminded us that mistakes do happen sometimes. We, as a service, couldn't afford to lose any clients data, so we have always had internal disaster recovery backups of all the data on our servers, but we felt that this wasn't enough. We wanted to give our clients the ability to be in control of their database backups and also the ability to quickly restore them if necessary. This is the r ...

After announcing the official shutdown of the hosted Parse service, an open source version was released. It can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run NodeJS, works with the Express web application framework and can be added to existing web applications, or run by itself. Parse Server is the best open source option to explore for those who search for alternative for the Hosted MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service). It has the potential to be one of t ...

Choosing your Parse Server provider could be important decision, if you’ve decided to go with a third party solution. A lot of new companies and providers came on the market during the last year, which is awesome, because you have more options to choose from. This also creates competition which pushes providers to improve the quality of the service and to give better terms in order to gain more customers. On the other hand you may feel confused - everybody ...

Time flies fast. It’s been 10 months since Parse announced the future retirement of their hosted service. Many of you still feel uncertain about starting the migration process. We do understand your reasons - you need more time to see how the situation is going to develop, which new path to choose - self hosted backend or third party provider, you still wonder how stable are the fresh Parse Server providers. The actual migration also may scare you - you’ve ...

Push notifications allow you to stay in touch with your users and make it possible for your users to communicate with each other. Before you begin, remember that push notifications are not available in the iOS Simulator. You will need an iOS device, as well as an Apple certificate to complete this tutorial. Create your APNS (iOS) credentials Creating your Apple Push Notification Service credentials is actually the longest part of this tutorial. Log in to ...

Last few days our clients had problems with Apps that used GCM credentials to send push notifications to Android devices. This was caused by the fact that Google recently released improved version of GCM API under the Firebase brand - FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging). Although Google says that they will continue to support the current version of GCM Android and iOS SDKs, they highly recommend everyone to upgrade to FCM in order to benefit from new FCM featur ...

We, SashiDo’s team, like to dream big, because setting up the bar high is the way to achieve awesome results. We wanted to create a service, offering every feature from Parse so you wouldn’t miss anything when coding your favourite apps, to give to you a REAL PARSE ALTERNATIVE. After launching so many of them and putting a lot of effort into improving the service, it was clear: it’s time to expand and cover more hosting location. Since most of you asked fo ...

One of the guideline policy that Parse created was to try to make everything convenient for their users and that was one of the main reasons developers loved the service. SashiDo’s team wants to keep this tradition by providing our customers the same experience of comfort and effortless coding. I’m sure this happened to you: you get an order for an app, but the customer also wants a website with it. So you have to use one provider for the mobile applicati ...