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Posted by mudassirjaved, 09-17-2009, 09:33 PM
my reseller hosting company can not provide fantastico to me and my clients now a days.... how i can provide fantastico to my clients? is there is any way to this?

Posted by ItsJustHosting, 09-17-2009, 09:38 PM
As far as I'm aware, your host will have to purchase and install it on their server. Perhaps you can ask them to do so and they will agree if you pay for it.

Posted by MikeTrike, 09-17-2009, 09:41 PM
1 for your host being responsible for fantastico. If they are running cPanel I don't see how it would be difficult to run.

Posted by SSD-Greg, 09-17-2009, 11:37 PM
About this do you think hes going to lose money and help out the clients on his server provider because he going to pay for the software and then the provider will provide it for other clients, id say transfer hosts.

Posted by IGXHost, 09-17-2009, 11:44 PM
Fantastico has become standard to many cPanel providers now. Perhaps your current provider ran into some technical issues with licensing or installing it on the node? Have you been able to find out exactly why they're unable to provide it for you?

Posted by GORF, 09-17-2009, 11:46 PM
Exactly. Seems they realy aren't as big as they seem. I don't remember the last time I saw a cPanel host that did not offer Fantastico.

Posted by catfished, 09-18-2009, 12:24 AM
Maybe they're afraid of all the one click installs of out of date versions of software that Fantastico provides. Also, lots of people play around installing these programs, never use them but leave them up begging to be exploited. I am not a host in the real sense but I have a server with a few of my design clients hosted on it. I do have Fantastico available but none of them even know how to get to Cpanel. If I had clients that would use it, I would disable it for the reasons stated above.

Posted by ldcdc, 09-18-2009, 09:38 AM
Maybe https://www.simplescripts.com/ can be a workaround/alternative. It seems to be available for resellers too, not just hosts that manage the server themselves. Anyway, worth at least an inquiry perhaps.

Posted by njoker555, 09-18-2009, 10:51 AM
or installatron (haven't tried simplescripts yet) - having one or the other would help but if you specifically want fantastico, you could ask your host and see if they will install it if you pay for the license (less than $5 in most places) - other than that, you can get a VPS and do whatever you want there. of course it's more pricey, but it's worth it in this type of situations.

Posted by mudassirjaved, 09-18-2009, 08:52 PM
i ask them about that...they say they currently not providing this service but soon they will....

Posted by Vinayak_Sharma, 09-19-2009, 03:56 PM
If its a cost issue, ask your provider to have a look at http://www.softaculous.com its free and quite good.

Posted by DnaJinx, 09-20-2009, 07:32 AM
You can not install fantastico unless you have root access to the server so its better you ask them to provide fantastico.

Posted by TimothyH, 09-20-2009, 08:14 AM
Not to derail the thread at all, but how often do they update Softaculous? One thing Fantastico lacks is updates, plus the recent price hike.

Posted by bryonhost1, 09-20-2009, 08:44 AM
Hi! It seems to me your only option is to move your clients. I know that's an ugly mess (just went through one) but i don't see any alternatives. Bryon

Posted by ayksolutions, 09-20-2009, 11:09 AM
Yeah Fantastico basically got rid of their reseller program. We have also started recommending Softaculous to our customers instead of Fantastico and everyone has been happy.

Posted by 314Hosting, 09-20-2009, 11:11 AM
Yes Softaculous is a good fantastico alternative.

Posted by Vinayak_Sharma, 09-20-2009, 12:22 PM
Well in my post above I mentioned its free, but just found that they have started offering premium license too, free license is still there though with fewer (58) scripts. Check pricing details at http://www.softaculous.com/pricing Still cheaper and better than Fantastico.

Posted by KMyers, 09-20-2009, 12:25 PM
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