How to Get the Most out of Fantastico De Luxe

Fantastico De Luxe is a very popular script installation program offered by many low cost web hosting service companies.  It simplifies the task of utilizing certain third party software programs.  The end user can install these programs in one or two clicks through the use of Fantastico De Luxe.  This ensures that even neophyte users are able to take advantage of all the third party open source programs available today.

You will commonly find Fantastico De Luxe available within the CPanel environment.  For the last five years, CPanel has been moving towards becoming the most popular hosting control panel available today.  It is typically installed on Linux servers but can also work on Windows servers.  When shopping for a low cost web hosting service, investigate as to whether or not they have Fantastico De Luxe.  This software can save you a LOT of time and money by enabling automatic installation of software that you might have not known about previously.

Budget web hosting companies (such as Inmotion) will often provide Fantastico De Luxe access for their customers to pack a bit more value into their product.  When users can install things like WordPress and ZenCart without getting their hands dirty, why not include it?  Programs such as Installatron and installapp offer similar capabilities, but are not as widely used as Fantastico De Luxe.

A company called Netenberg offers the Fantastico De Luxe product as an automated management system for open source content.  Netenberg offers Fantastico De Luxe licenses for approximately $20 each if purchased in bulk.  However, most low cost web hosting service providers offer this service free to their customers.

Some of the programs that Fantastico De Luxe comes with on a very typical basis include:

• Blogging software like WordPress and b2Evolution
• Polling software like Advanced Poll
• Project management software like PHPProjekt
• CMS like PhpNuke, Xoops, Joomla, and Droopal
• Customer service software like osTicket, Help Center Live and PHP Support Tickets.
• Internet forums like phpBB2
• E-commerce and shopping cart software like OS Commerce and Zen Cart
• Image management systems and galleries like Coppermine and PHP Gallery
• Miscellaneous scripts like phpFormGenerator, WebCalendar, and PHP Auctions

The scripts in your Fantastico De Luxe may vary dramatically from those in this list.  Though these are fairly common scripts when running Fantastico De Luxe, your low cost web hosting service provider may have many more or many less available.  Do not hesitate to call your affordable web hosting company and request that support for a script be installed.

Your low cost web hosting company may provide basic support for Fantastico De Luxe.  However, in general, this automatic pilot program is not the source of problems you are experiencing.  In general, your discount web hosting company will not provide support for these third party, open source software suite.  Choose wisely before you install and be sure to investigate if the third party software has a support forum or detailed FAQ in case you run into any problems.

The biggest criticism of Fatastico De Luxe is rooted in this issue.  Because it is a feature provided to you by your low cost web hosting service, users automatically assume the host should support it.  However, they cannot provide intense support for software they had no part in developing.  In fact, your low cost web hosting service does not even need to have a working knowledge of the third party software in order to provide you with an automated install of it through Fantastico De Luxe.  However, most users will find this perfectly acceptable, provided you do your homework on the software and expect to have to work out “kinks” on your own.

Fantastico De Luxe also provides automated removal of the aforementioned software.  This can be a great feature if you want to explore all the software suites before building your website upon them.  In fact, one can install all the software suites, try them out, and uninstall all but the most appealing one.  I could write all the text in the world describing the software suites, but you will not know whether you like working with or not until you get yours onto it.

If your low cost web hosting service supports the functionality, Fantastico De Luxe can even upgrade older versions of the third party open source software.  Well maintained programs like Joomla, WordPress, and ZenCart are constantly releasing updates and patches.  Fantastico De Luxe can automate this upgrade so that the end user does not need to get his or her hands dirty.