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What is Fantastico?

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Jun 2010

What is Fantastico is a question I hear quite often. Fantastico is a web hosting related automation tool that is designed to make installing popular scripts extremely easy. Fantastico was developed allow non-technical people or folks new to the Internet to install popular blogging software, forum’s software, and many other scripts. Web Hosting support teams all over the place received inquiries repeatedly about helping a customer to install WordPress, phpBB, Joomla, or other scripts. Fantastico addressed these questions and the number of support tickets at many web hosting providers went down dramatically.

Why is Fantastico so successful? Fantastico is extremely easy to use. As example if you are trying to manually install WordPress blogging software you first have to obtain the software from WordPress.org. Then you have to create a MySQL database and a database user with appropriate permissions is needed, too. Then you need unzip the installation files and upload them to your server. You might be surprised how many people still use dial-up or are on the slowest cable Internet package or DSL package with minimal uploading speed. The entire process can take 15-30 minutes depending how savvy a web hosting client is. Fantastico cuts the time needed down to about 1.5 minutes. This is just one example, but you can imagine how this looks like for other scripts.

Now you need a web host who offers Fantastico. Fantastico usually comes in combination with the famous cPanel web control panel which allows a user to easily manage an entire domain and web hosting account. So, you want to be looking for a cpanel web host and Fantastico is usually included. Here is a short list of web hosting providers that offer cpanel Web Hosting where fantastico is included totally free of charge.

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