Backendless Pro is the Limitless Edition of the Backendless Platform that can be installed anywhere – your developer’s computer, private data center, public cloud. Our on-premise product has no functional limitations whatsoever and can easily scale to handle very high transactional volume. Built on the Docker architecture, each installation is its own fully capable instance of Backendless.
Backendless Pro can be installed wherever it will provide the most value to your business, be that a developer’s local hard drive, your on-premise internal servers, cloud servers, or elsewhere. The components are available as independent containers through DockerHub. We use Docker Compose to simplify the process of defining and running Backendless Pro as a multi-container application. Installation is a breeze with Backendless Pro Manager.
Backendless Pro is the Limitless Edition of the Backendless platform. That means you can create an unlimited number of apps, process unlimited API calls including unlimited API calls/second, create development teams, send an unlimited number of push notifications, configure data retrieval page size, store an unlimited number of objects in data tables, expand your file storage any time you need it… Endlessly Backendless!
Scalability is built into the design and the overall architecture of Backendless technology. Every moving part of the platform can be independently scaled to increase the product’s capabilities to handle ever-increasing traffic. Whether it’s the web tier responsible for processing API and console requests, the app server, or the data tier, each tier of the product supports horizontal scaling.
Backendless has a wide array of SDKs that are all open-source, well documented, and include numerous examples. When you choose Backendless Pro, you can use all the same Backendless SDKs that are available for our Cloud solution. We have SDKs for virtually all of the major clients on the market.
Your backend powered by Backendless Pro can be further enhanced through Backendless Marketplace purchases. Even though you run your own dedicated and isolated installation, you can still receive API services, database connectors, and code generators from the centrally located Backendless Marketplace.
Backendless Pro is both easy to use and feature-rich, but its extensive capabilities can make the setup process more complex. A typical installation involves configuring multiple worker processes, and with the product’s powerful features, you may find yourself needing some assistance. The good news is that professional support is available through an annual subscription, ensuring you have expert guidance whenever you need it.
FREE License
• Everything must run on a single machine
• All Core Backendless features
• No Limitations
• Upgrade available for FlowRunner and Visualizations
Everything in a Single Server, plus
• High availability mode
No single point of failure
• On-premise Deployment
Minimum three nodes
Backendless Pro can be installed on any server hardware or virtual machine running Ubuntu. Backendless Pro Manager is an installation wizard that makes the installation process painless.
Backendless Pro Manager includes instructions for procuring a Backendless Pro trial license, so you will not need a license key before beginning the process.
Watch the videos to learn how to install Backendless Pro on your own virtual servers step-by-step. If you don’t see the provider you’ve chosen, let us know on our support forum.
Follow this step-by-step video to install Backendless Pro on DigitalOcean virtual machines, or Droplets. GitHub instructions coming soon.
Follow this step-by-step video, along with the instructions on our AWS GitHub page, to install Backendless Pro on AWS EC2 virtual machines.
Follow this step-by-step video, along with the instructions on our Microsoft Azure GitHub page, to install Backendless Pro on Azure virtual machines.
To evaluate the Backendless platform, we recommend you start with Backendless Cloud. With that option, you can start instantly without downloading and installing Backendless Pro and get a feel for the platform. Once you’ve seen Backendless in action and decide to proceed with Pro, we will offer a free, perpetual license for the platform’s Community Edition.
Backendless Pro requires a license key for continuous development and production operations. When you start the product installation, you will be guided to a form where you can request a license key.
Your application’s users, data, geopoints, and files can be migrated from a Backendless Cloud deployment to Pro using the export/import function built-into Backendless Console.
Yes, Backendless Pro is the same product as Backendless Cloud, but it is packaged for private deployments. While the complete version of the Pro includes all features of Cloud without any of the limitations, the free Community Edition includes the Core functionality of the platform. This excludes support for FlowRunner, Visualizations, and Dashboards. These features can be licensed separately.
Unlike Backendless Cloud, which imposes functional limits, Backendless Pro has no limits whatsoever. This applies to API requests/second (unlimited in Backendless Pro), number of push notifications that can be sent, number of custom security roles that can be created, number of objects that can be stored in data tables, and all other limitations in Cloud. With Backendless Pro, all these restrictions are removed from the product.
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