Best Website Auto Installer

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Scripts Auto Installer overview

Auto installer is used for quick installation over website scripts like wordpress, joomla, drupal and many other open source applications. It's highly recommended for website quick setup. If you're a webmaster, you don't need go through the boring steps but just by few clicks away for mass websites deployment. If you're a newbie user, you don't need to deal with various tech stuff and be able to get the site running by clicking your mouse point!  The auto installer scripts come with almost every web hosting provider, Here we're going to introduce the most popular ones that's used by web hosting providers

Fantastico – Developped by netenberg group, the first and the oldest scripts auto installer for cpanel. Just from several years ago, fantastico is recognized the standard add-on for cpanel control panel. With more than 10.000 installations, it provides more than one million end users the ability to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems into their web space.

However, comparing to newly competitors, fantastico seems a bit backward, its scripts library is very limited and always not updated with the newest script versions.

Softaculous – Softaculous is a great Auto Installer with over 150 great scripts and the library is still keep growing. Softaculous is ideal for Web Hosting companies and it could give a significant boost to your sales. These scripts cover most of the uses a customer could ever have. The best part is it's always kept with the newest software updates and in case there's new release of your installed script you will get email notification, you will be able to update via one click in control panel.

Installatron – Installatron is a state-of-the-art web application auto-installer and auto-upgrader (also known as a script installer) plugin for web hosting control panels. Installatron enables your users to install, manage, and upgrade a premier collection of the best applications on the web, all instantly at the click of a button. This installer is not yet popularly implemented by leading hosting providers.

SimpleScripts – Simplescripts is initially developped by bluehost group and provided for FREE with easy one-click management of over 100 of the web's top applications including WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Roundcube, Gallery, and more. SimpleScripts is a "hosted service", so you can add applications to your existing web hosting account from their official site directly, no matter if your host added it to control panel or not!

Which auto installer is the best for web hosting purpose?

Softaculous is absolutely the best and introduced into most leading web hosting providers. Not just because it's used mostly by hosting providers, it's best for it's update frequency (both the scripts library and latest version scripts). In that we we'll always get the newest stable version script.

The second is Simplescripts. Being a free software, it's mainly introduced into Vdeck hosting control panel by EIG group. The only cpanel support over simplescripts is bluehost. So if you're using cpanel and looking for best auto installer for your clients, we highly recommend Softaculous as it has the largest scripts library and be able to keep everything up to date.

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