All software products in this section will run flawlessly on all of our plans, including our Premium Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting plans.
Fantastico De Luxe is an addon for cPanel that provides hosting customers with a variety of useful software products, most of them available for you to use free of charge. Software for Blogs, Portals & Content Management Systems, Customer Support, Discussion Boards, E-Commerce, Wikis, and many other purposes can be installed quickly by Fantastico.
Extremely popular software such as phpBB 3, Drupal, and WordPress are at your fingertips with Fantastico's easy installation system. Fantastico's developers attempt to keep the software products it installs up-to-date to maintain your installations with the latest security fixes. For more details about the scripts and tools you will be able to install using Fantastico De Luxe, read on.
In addition to the software listed below, Fantastico is capable of installing many others. A complete listing can be found on Fantastico's official website. All of the software products below are recommended by iHubNet. The ones we recommend most are listed first in their respective categories and are marked with the iHubNet logo 
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
Drupal is one of the best and most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) and can easily be installed by iHubNet customers through Fantastico. It allows individuals and communities alike to easily publish, manage, and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It can be used for anything from corporate websites and online commerce to personal homepages and school websites. The possibilities are endless!
Mambo is a free, open source, feature-filled content management system. It can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It has a large selection of add-ons to increase the functionality of the site as well as free or low-cost templates available through the community.
Blogging Software
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Since its inception in 2003,
WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
b2evolution is an advanced weblog tool with support for multiple blog installations and multilingual blogging. Each blog can be divided into categories and subcategories for better post organization. It has an advanced plugin framework, allowing you to create your own or select from pre-built plugins.
Shopping Carts
CubeCart is an e-commerce shopping cart software solution designed to allow you to quickly set up a powerful online store that can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world. It has been professionally audited to ensure your customers' information is safe.
osCommerce is an e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features, allowing online stores to be set up quickly and easily. It provides real-time shipping quotes and currency conversions and works with numerous online and offline payment types.
Zen Cart is a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software program designed for online merchants.
Zen Cart features all the tools required to build a successful online store, including support for multiple customer and display modes, quantity discounts, and customer retention tools.
Discussion Boards
phpBB has, since its creation in 2000, become the most widely-used Open Source forum solution. Its easy-to-use administration panel lets you have a forum set up in a matter of minutes.
phpBB couples a large and highly customizable set of key features with a standards-compliant interface.
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server.
Site Builders & Web Templating Systems
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Pro Base edition of Soholaunch Website Builder provides a comprehensive set of tools to help different kinds of people at every experience level build better websites of all kinds and build them faster. Best of all, as an iHubNet customer, you'll get this wonderful tool free of charge as part of Fantastico! If you have no experience whatsover building websites, you can build a great site with Soholaunch. Or, if you do have experience, you'll have plenty of opportunities to use your skills to great effect. Choose from 175 pre-installed templates, or create an unlimited number of your own templates.
