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06-09-2009, 08:44 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Softaculous - better than Fantastico?
Has anyone tried Softaculous?
Its now offering more scripts than Fantastico (around 90 i guess) and free. I was wondering if we should suggest our clients to use Softaculous instead of Fantastico?
Anyone got any feedback from end-users?
I am not being bothered about the pricing as Fantastico comes free with my cpanel license. But as its offering more scripts, will it be better to suggest our clients to use Softaculous instead of Fantastico?
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06-09-2009, 08:51 AM #2The Linux Specialist
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Wow, first time I hear this and it is free?
For sure, they will eventually ask for payment though once they are popular...
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06-09-2009, 09:03 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Actually when I first found them out, they were to charge something like $18/year for a paid version and keep another limited version for free. They were then offering the paid version for free to spread out the words.
But now i see they have listed it as free.
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06-09-2009, 10:15 AM #4WHT Addict
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This is the first I've heard of it as well. If it functions as it should then it looks like a great replacement. They defiantly need a better interface though.
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06-09-2009, 10:31 AM #5Junior Guru
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try this and good enough but seems cannot correctly deal with suexec and suphp so set wrong permission
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06-09-2009, 11:54 AM #6We do WordPress!
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I'll have to look into this software. Currently we use Installatron and it seriously kicks Fantastico butt.
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06-09-2009, 12:09 PM #7WHT Addict
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Have just installed this on our sites, lets see if the clients like it.
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06-09-2009, 04:30 PM #8Junior Guru
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We have it installed on our servers and works perfectly
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06-09-2009, 04:38 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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06-09-2009, 04:47 PM #10We do WordPress!
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Forget about the lack of updates, just the feature-set itself makes Installatron #1 in my book.
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06-09-2009, 09:37 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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06-09-2009, 09:41 PM #12Disabled
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Installatron has been doing a great job as a Fantastico replacement. Fantastico sucks. Anyone know why it still has such a large market share?
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06-09-2009, 09:47 PM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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06-09-2009, 09:52 PM #14We do WordPress!
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Plus fantastico was the first out the door.
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06-09-2009, 10:05 PM #15Total Nerd
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I just installed it yesterday on my server and so far I haven't had any complaints (and so far I like it better than Fantastico/Installatron).
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06-09-2009, 11:16 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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This is actually pretty awesome. I'm with Scott, Installatron is a million times better than Fantastico... but I might just give softaculous a shot.
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06-09-2009, 11:26 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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can this be installed together with Fantastico on cPanel?
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06-09-2009, 11:57 PM #18Total Nerd
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It intergrates directly with Fantastico/cPanel (looks like the only control panel supported). The only thing I noticed is it requires IonCube to be used as the internal cPanel PHP loader (not sure what effects that may cause performance-wise but I haven't seen any issue).
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06-10-2009, 01:01 AM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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I installed it few days and it is AWESOME
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06-10-2009, 01:42 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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Well I tried it and it's nice, especially for free. But I think they still have some work to do before it can compete with Installatron. Plus no DirectAdmin support sucks.
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06-10-2009, 02:41 AM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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I dont know if we can upgrade scripts with Softacolous like we can with Installatron
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06-10-2009, 03:55 AM #23Web Hosting Master
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06-10-2009, 11:28 AM #25Web Hosting Master
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Well we offer 75 scripts at the moment and 15 are in the making which will be launched soon.
About SuExec and SuPHP we havent got any complaints on our supprt board. If you do have then please post there and we will definitely solve the problems ASAP.
Softaculous, Fantastico and Installatron can all work simultaneously so no need to worry about that.
As I was reading this topic I found many of the repliers like Installatron. I would just like to clarify that Installatron takes about 12+ steps to make an installation of just one software. Softaculous just takes ONE and just ONE step, nothing more than that. Installatron uses a softwares own installer while Softaculous makes and installs softwares using its API. We are 3 Times Faster than Fantastico and 12 - 15 times faster than Installatron.
Nonetheless we are dedicated to keep adding softwares and take the number to 100+ within this month. Installatron offers 57 softwares and fantastico offers 52 softwares at the moment. So there is no comparison between Softaculous and Competitors.
To add to this NONE except softaculous offers the following:
1) LIVE DEMOS of Softwares maintained by Softaculous
2) Ratings
3) REVIEWS
All that to within the Control Panel itself.
And Softaculous is FREE!
The only thing we lack at the moment is POPULARITY.
But our progress is good enough adding nearly 100 NEW SERVERS every week and the numbers keep getting better.
We made softaculous because we knew this would be the BEST piece of AUTO INSTALLER around.
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