Free Online Software - Fantastico:

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Notes about Fantastico:

• Fantastico is available FREE to people on our Small Web Plan, Medium, Large, Superand Extreme Web Plans.

• Fantastico is NOT available on our Corporate Web Plan, which is hosted on New Zealand based webservers, and uses a different Control Panel. If you are joining our Corporate Web Plan, you can install the software that is included in Fantastico, by clicking on the link located alongside the software title above, which will take you directly to the developers website. You can then download the software directly from the developers website, and install the software into your hosting space. You don't need to have Fantastico included with your web hosting plan, to install the scripts above, as they are all open source scripts, and are free for anyone to install. Fantastico just makes installation of these scripts easier and faster.

• The beauty of Fantastico, is that it allows people to install and try out Open Source software, by automatically installing it in Fantasico with just a few clicks. Essentially it makes the installation faster. However due to the complexity of some open source software and it being constantly modified, and the configuration of the software to different configurations of server, bugs can occur during the installation process. Therefore we recommend that clients only use Fantasico installed software, to try it out, and to see if the software meets your requirements. We don't recommend clients use a Fantasico installed application for production websites, although in many cases it may be fine. For production websites, we would recommend that you manually download the software from the developers website, and install it manually using FTP. The developers of the software should have easy to follow instructions showing how to do this.

• We don't provide any technical support for applications installed within Fantastico or cPanel, as they are all 3rd party open source applications. Nor do we guarantee that they will be bug free or will install correctly via Fantastico. Support for software within Fantastico can be found at the respective developers website's. If software fails to install correctly, and you want to use the software, please visit the respective developers website to install the software manually via FTP.

• If you plan to use any Fantastico software on your website, you are required to make regular backups of your website. This is so that you have always got a backup copy of the data that you have stored on the server.

• The software choice within Fantastico may be altered at anytime. This means that new software could be added, or old software could be removed from Fantastico at anytime. Old software is usually only removed if it is found to create a security risk for the server. Removal of software from Fantastico will only affect the auto installation of the software, and won't affect the software on your website if you have previously installed it from Fantastico into your hosting space. However if you have outdated or unpatched software that you have installed in your hosting space, that may create a security risk for the server, you are required to update it.

• Being open source, the software in Fantastico is being continuous updated, to more current versions of the scripts. New software is also being added to Fantastico all the time. Fantastico however won't update any software installations that you have already made through it, and you will need to do this manually by reinstalling or updating your installation of the software through Fantastico, or by going to the developers website and downloading a patch or most recent version of the software. If you use software that is installed by Fantastico, you must check the developers website regularly to make sure that you aren't using outdated or vulnerable installations of the software. If you are, you will need to update the software. Using out-of-date software on our servers opens up security issues, which could affect the performance of the servers, and could result in your account being suspended until the issue has been fixed.
  We recommend that if you install any software in Fantastico, that you visit the developers website/s and join any mailing lists that they offer, so you can keep informed of any new releases or patches for the software.