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HostMonster Fantastico for cPanel
Fantastico is an add-on to the powerful CPanel control panel that HostMonster provides. It allows you to install over 50 popular scripts with just a few clicks. These scripts include blogs, content management tools, forums, polls, guestbook, shopping-carts, picture galleries, mailing lists, Wikis, etc. With Fantastico, you no longer need to manually install each open source script such as Wordpress yourself.
To install a script the traditional way, you will usually need to download the script from the source website, unzip the files, edit the configuration file with a text editor, create a new directory in your site and upload all your files to it. You also need to set some permissions for the files and directories, create new databases and add user privileges to the databases for the scripts to be able to connect to the database. Then there's the troubleshooting! If you don't understand or want to understand what I just said, well, Fantastico is your answer! It does all of this with just a few clicks of your mouse.
The only drawback to the Fantastico library of software is they are slow to release new updates to their scripts. Wordpress' latest version will most likely not be available in Fantastico. I will say this though, UPGRADING Wordpress is a heck of a lot easier than installing fresh. So even though the software might be a little out of date, MOST of the gruntwork will be done for you.
So what does HostMonster do? They developed SimpleScripts and you can have new versions available almost immediately after they are released! If WordPress 2.8 comes out today, you can install/upgrade it within 24 hours using SimpleScripts! Not only that you can install the newest version, they are even making a few versions available for you to choose from if you decided to use an older version. Fantastico only provides 1 version for each script.
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