Web hosting made easy with fantastico

Another form of web hosting is Fantastico. It is a library of commercial scripts that automatically install web applications onto web sites. Fantastico scripts are then executed by the control panel, which is the administration part of the web site. It is said that Fantastico has been installed on ten thousand servers and has about a million users around the world, which would make it the top product of its type. The executions of Fantastico’s scripts are done when new web sites are built and when new applications are applied to already existing web sites. Fantastico scripts usually are what create tables in databases, installs software, adjust permissions and configure web server files. Even though Fantastico is associated with open house, a few scripts are still able to install commercial products.

Below is some of the software that comes with Fantastico:

• b2evolution blogging software
• PHP-Nuke CMS software
• Wordpress blogging software
• Gallery photo album software
• Drupal CMS system
• Tikiwiki encyclopedia software
• The prefect web hosting CMS: Joomla
• Organise your work with Moodle
• phpBB the ultimate open source forum
• osCommerce - complete ecommerce solution

These commercial products that are installed are immediately available to all domains that are being hosted by a physical server; i.e. web builders like SohoLaunch, customer support software like PerlDesk and software that interacts with internet registrars like AccountLab Plus. Some of Fantastico’s negative criticisms include security problems with the older versions of software. of the older released products are still being used to this day, even with security issues associated with them. The ISP usually doesn’t maintain the installation scripts and this is why the security problems exist.

Another issue with Fantastico is the default configuration. With most of its applications, the default configuration feature is not secure. Besides this fact, the installation scripts are very easy to set up. Opportunities are also available; when spammers write automated scripts, spam messages are posted to the web site.

Being an open source project, Fantastico is not legally able to prevent third parties from creating alternative installers. The users are instead responsible for the monitoring of updates and patches. This can be much more technically challenging for users vs. the automated control panel, which would do everything for the user. By using open source files, the user has to do everything themselves and from scratch. In total, there are 50 applications associated with Fantastico, including Wikis, blogs, photo sharing, shopping cart software and web content management system.

The web content management system, also known as CMS, is most of the time implemented as web sites because of its creation and management of HTML content. This type of system is used to keep control over web content and manage large dynamic collections of web material. These collections include images, HTML documents. The facilitation of the creation of content, control of content, editing of content and maintenance of web functions are conducted by web content management systems. Authoring tools are usually provided by web content management systems. These authoring tools are designed to make web designing more user friendly by doing all of the technical work for them. Little or no prior training is needed when creating web sites or making changes to already existing web sites. Users with little or no knowledge about markup language and programming language can easily use the authoring tools.