Many hosting companies provides a tools called Fantastico. Fantastico is a tool that allows a user to select from a list of scripts and install the script with just filling out some form and clicking the button.
Fantastico makes installing script so simple, does it makes script installation service like us obsolete?
Well, yes and no.
Yes to the extent that simple installation and testing can easily be accomplished with a few clicks of the mouse. In fact, as mention in the previous post, Wordpress installation is already so simple.
No because we provide a customized service. Perhaps your host don’t provide Fantastico. Perhaps you want to install an application not provided by Fantastico. Perhaps there is a unique install situation that requires human decision. We are here to fill that gap. Programs can’t beat experience just yet.
Taking this into account, if your hosting provider has Fantastico and you still require our service to install a script provided by Fantastico, we will install it for you with personal attention for just $10.
Just mention this in the order and we will refund you the difference.
What are the scripts installed? Here is the list (list below is updated as of this post date):
Blogs:
Classifieds:
- Noah’s Classifieds (V8 (3.2.0)) (website)
Portals/CMS:
- Drupal (6.10) (website)
- Geeklog (1.5.1) (website)
- Joomla 1.5 (1.5.10) (website)
- Joomla (1.0.15) (website)
- Mambo Open Source (4.6.5) (website)
- PHP-Nuke (7.9) (website)
- phpWCMS (1.1-RC4 Rev. A) (website)
- phpWebSite (0.10.2) (website)
- Post-Nuke (0.764) (visit site)
- Siteframe (3.2.3) (website)
- Typo3 (4.2.1) (website)
- Xoops (2.3.1) (website)
Customer Support:
- Crafty Syntax Live Help (2.15.0) (website)
- Help Center Live (2.1.7) (website)
- osTicket (1.3.1) (website)
- PerlDesk (4.012.2) (Commercial, needs license) (website)
Discussion Boards:
E-Commerce:
- CubeCart (3.0.17) (website)
- OS Commerce (2.2 Release Candidate 2a + buySAFE) (website)
- Zen Cart (1.3.8a) (website)
FAQ:
- FAQMasterFlex (1.51) (website)
Hosting Billing:
Image Galleries:
- 4images Gallery (1.7.6) (website)
- Coppermine Photo Gallery (1.4.20) (website)
- Gallery (2.3) (website)
Mailing List:
- PHPlist (2.10.9) (website)
Polls and Surveys:
Project Management:
Site Builders:
- Soholaunch Pro Edition (4.9.3 r17) (Commercial, needs license) (website)
- Templates Express (website)
Wiki:
Other Scripts:
- Dew-NewPHPLinks (2.0.1.0b SEF w/Thumbshots) (website)
- Moodle (1.9.4) (website)
- Open-Realty (2.5.6) (website)
- phpAdsNew (2.0.11-pr1) (website)
- PHPauction (3.2) (website)
- phpFormGenerator (2.09c) (website)
- WebCalendar (1.2.0) (website)
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Fantastico makes installations easy… for hackers. When you install anything with Fantastico, you are making it possible for hackers to take over your installation.
You are doing a major disservice to your customers by offering them that discount if you are going to use Fantastico to install their software in the first place. Now if you install using the manual method anyway, you are being very kind to your customers.
Fantastico does one thing that makes it WAY too insecure to be used to install anything important. It uses the same database username and database name for every installation. This, coupled with the fact that way to many users choose very easy to remember passwords and this is just asking hackers to take over that installation.
I offer a free report on how to fix the vulnerability on my website.
Thanks,
Micheal Savoie
No we are not offering a discount and then turn around and use Fantastico. This is unimaginable!
We like to think of it as giving a good reason for customers to use us instead of just using Fantastico.