Want to install new software application on your website? Want to manage classified Ads from your website? Want to send newsletters at once? Want to have powerful blog feature for your site? Want to build nice look and feature rich website as fast as you can? Want to add polls, forums and shopping carts in your website? If the answer is yes, then you can install various scripts and softwares in only few clicks including blogs, polls and many more to come. Here comes the user friendly software installation method that is provided by Softaculous – a great auto software installer. By using Softaculous one can make their cPanel hosting packages more powerful and flexible than ever.
On October 28th, 2010, Softaculous released new version – Softaculous 3.1. This new version comes with 150 scripts to install. Just install these scripts on a fly and start using it at your pace. The software scripts are selected keeping a common user’s requirements in mind. These scripts will provide powerful features to your website so that, more uses can get attracted to your website. Softaculous had provided a wide array of categorized software modules that can be easily plugged with your website design. It contains various categories of PHP scripts which includes:
- Blogs
- Micro blogs
- emails
- Portals / CMS, Forums
- Image Galleries
- Wikis Management software
- Social Management
- Project Management
- E-Commerce
- Music plugins
- Videos Sharing plugins
- Customer Support
- Guest Books
- RSS Modules
…. too many names isn’t it?
It also includes some JavaScripts modules in addition to PHP Applications, which installs Javascript Libraries, a Cross Browser module and hundreds of codes available.
Softaculous believes that users are the best judge to decide which software is best. So they have given choice to decide it by allowing users to rate software. You can view a demo of each software before you install any software module. This will help you to make decisions on usability and workability of software.
You will also be able to see ratings and reviews made on any particular software. You can also post your ratings and reviews for software which you installed for your website.
Total number of scripts provided by Softaculous 3.1 are 150 as of today. Softaculous said that they will keep on adding more software applications into their catalog. They wanted users to decide and to choose the best software available. This way they are giving chance for new software development companies to join Softaculous. To know which is the best application available for users, they have provided ratings scheme for applications. This rating can be viewable by all uses before installing any application to their control panel.
Softaculous works with many popular Website Control Panels available in web hosting services industry. It will work with cPanel, DirectAdmin, Interworx Control Panel, Plesk, ISPManager etc. Recently they have released WHMCS Plugin which is available for users when they sign up with WHMCS.
Softaculous not only installs web application on your server but, you can also manage your installed applications too. You can backup your applications with directory structure and with databases. You may download this backup and restore this backup to other server very easily.
So, if you want to build your website quickly with various features and containing rich set of web applications, then go for Softaculous! Ask for more information to your hosting service provider on this.