How does Fantastico De Luxe compare to other auto-installers?:
Some companies offer additional scripts for the CPanel Addon-Scripts feature. This means, they have no control on special features, are limited to the possibilities offered by CPanel, can not fullfil customers' requests other than adding new scripts.

Please notice that the table below compares strawberries to apples to lemons (full featured application to hosting control panel to tarballs prepared to be used with CPanel's Addon-Scripts feature).

		Fantastico		CPanel's Addon Scripts		3rd party script packages *
Features
Installations in home (main) directories		X		-		-
Installations in addon-domains		X		-		-
Installations in subdomains		X		-		-
Different scripts for different users / hosting plans / resellers (Features Sets)		X		-		-
Notify administrator upon installations / removals		X		-		-
Notify user upon installations / removals		X		-		-
Serverwide overview of all installations		X		-		-
Serverwide overview of selected installations on a per application / user basis		X		-		-
End user overview of all installations		X		-		-
Language independent		X		-		-
Installations disabled for specific users / hosting plans /reseller		X		-		-
Installations allowed only for specific users / hosting plans /reseller		X		-		-
Regular addition of new scripts		X		-		X
Installed base guarantees your investment		10 000+ installations		Dozens of thousands of installations		(no data available)
Manufacturer is code owner and has full control over future development		X		X		-
Prices (as of Dec 15th 2003)
1 server		90 US$		(included with CPanel)		75 US$
2 servers		166 US$				140 US$
3 servers		230 US$				195 US$
4 servers		282 US$				240 US$
Unlimited servers		N/A				275 US$

* We call this "script packages" as it is not a real application, but script packages prepared to use the CPanel Addon-Scripts code in order to perform installations.

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