Which one do you prefer?

[xpl0iter]

Fantastico or Softaculous?
I cannot comment on this as I have only used fantasico!

 

[Jamiew2510]

What does fantastico do?

 

[xpl0iter]

What does fantastico do?

Both are one click installers. For example if you need to install wordpress, you will open this tool and give the site title, admin username and password, then click on install wordpress, boom your site is ready!

 

[Jamiew2510]

Awesome!

 

[Sylar]

I prefer softlacious, however, I prefer doing manual if I can, as it's just easier that way(for me).

 

[Sam1]

Softaculous by a mile. If my host has Fantastico installed there isn't any point in using it because the scripts aren't updated as often, I'll just do a manual install.

 

[Marc]

I think both installs old versions of the software which I dislike. Honestly, I prefer downloading the software from its official website and installing it myself. However I've used Softaculous (I think that's the one) once to setup a quick demo blog with the wordpress script (and maybe a dummy phpBB forum).

 

[dojo]

I am not using any auto-installers for my sites, it's better to do manual installations, not to mention that the forums I install are either on VB or XF, so they're not in a script repository on a hosting service (since you need a paid license for this). I did use Fantastico few times though more of a test and it was OK. Never heard about the other one.

 

[Sam1]

I am not using any auto-installers for my sites, it's better to do manual installations, not to mention that the forums I install are either on VB or XF, so they're not in a script repository on a hosting service (since you need a paid license for this). I did use Fantastico few times though more of a test and it was OK. Never heard about the other one.

I disagree with you Dojo. In my experience an auto-install is just as good as a manual (having done both many times) and it is a lot faster. I think a lot of webmasters don't like the persona of 1 click installers because they're for "Newbs" but when you're setting up multiple sites it saves a lot of time.

 

[MarkWillson01]

I also love Fantastic.

 

[razelia]

I've never tried either of them since my hosting service already provides one-click installations for popular CMS, like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. so it never really occurred to me to even try them out. I personally love one-click installations, though. They're fast, usually the best version available (since the hosting's providing it), and I've never really had problems with them.

 

[shadowslight]

Im usually not a fan of one click installs. I have used them. it is useful in installing CMS's as far as im concerned.

I agree though with Sam. They do save time on a multi-site project.