Fantastico is a system included as part of some web hosting accounts. Fantastico provides automatic installation of a wide range of web scripts.

Fantastico features:

One-Click Install
With Fantastico, installing a script is as easy as clicking the mouse once. At a record time, one can easily make use of any of the scripts available for installation.

Update-Friendly
Fantastico is made to deliver the benefit of informing you about the latest script that you may need to install.

Easy-to-Use Interface
Fantastico is known to be a very user-friendly autoinstaller. Even novices can benefit from its ease of use since it does not require the manual setup of the ever-technical mySQL databases.

Fantastico Access How-Tos
Once you log into your cPanel account, the Fantastico icon can be found at the top left part. Do you know how really easy it can be used? All you have to do is choose the particular script you would like to use from the various categories or folders:

The "blog" category has the following scripts under it:
- B2evolution
- Nucleus
- pMachine Free
- Wordpress

The "content management" category includes the following scripts:
- Drupal
- Geeklog
- Jumla
- Mambo Open Source
- PHP-Nuke
- phpWCMS
- phpWebsite
- Post-Nuke
- Siteframe
- TYPO3
- Xoops

The "customer relationship" category has the following scripts:
- Crafty Syntax Live Help
- Help Center Live
- osTicket
- PerlDesk
- Php Support Tickets
- Support Logic Helpdesk
- Support Services Manager

The "discussion boards" category contains the following scripts:
- phpBB2
- SMF

The "e-commerce" category encompasses these scripts:
- Cube Cart
- OS Commerce
- Zen Cart

The "FAQ" category covers the following script:
- FAQMasterFlex

The "guestbooks" category includes this script:
- ViPER Guestbook

The "hosting billing" category consists of these 2 scripts:
- AccountLab Plus
- PhpCOIN

The "image galleries" category comprises the following scripts:
- 4Images Gallery
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
- Gallery

The "mailing lists" category has this script under it:
- PHPlist
The "polls and surveys" category covers these scripts:
- Advanced Poll
- phpESP
- PHPSurveyor

The "project management" category consists of the following scripts:
- dotProject
- PHProjekt

The "site builders" category has these scripts:
- Soho Launch Pro Edition
- Templates Express

The "wiki" category covers these two scripts:
- TikiWiki
- Php Wiki

The miscellaneous scripts that Fantastico can deal with include Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, Noahs Classifieds, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, phpauction, PHP Form Generator, WebCalendar.

After choosing the script, which is considered the most difficult part of using Fantastico, from a certain folder that you wan to install, create a user name and a password. Also, include other pertinent information that the script requires before you can install it. After hitting on the "install" button, you're done. It is advisable though to visit your cPanel every now and then to know about the available updates and consequentially upgrade your scripts.

Users have options to alter and use for the actual program. They are labeled "extras" at the bottom of the cPanel page. The extras are Language, Side Menu Appearance, Email Notifications and Installations Overview.

People can easily get bored with whatever you offer them. Web sites are supposed to be designed to have continuous traffic flowing in and out of them. With its various and useable scripts that every website will definitely be needing, Fantastico can very well lend a helping hand in this endeavor - to make your web site more accessible and user-friendly.

For a retail price of USD 90, the Fantastico De Luxe web hosting package can make your website management a breeze.