Fantastico De Luxe is the market leader when it comes to auto-installers for cPanel/WHM servers. Having over 10,000 installations, it provides more than one million users with dozens of open-source scripts on a daily basis. Fantastico is one of the most popular third party add-ons that can be purchased and added to the cPanel.

Let’s take a quick overview of the features that make Fantastico such a popular auto-installer.

If you like full control, then you’ll love what Fantastico has to offer.  With their advanced controls, the administrator can fully control what scripts their end users have access to.  It also allows administrators the ability to set location based language functionality.

Upgrades are great, especially when you don’t have to hunt for them.  With Fantastico, as soon as the upgrades are released, the upgrades are available for administrators to download. As another added bonus, you can automate your upgrades as well, this allows your backups and updates to happen at the same time.

Support is a key element for any business.  Getting support when you need it most is crucial. Fantastico has an array of support features to choose from, whether it be their community forum or email based ticketing system, they have it covered.

When it comes to Installing Fantastico, they make the process just as streamlines as their product.  You can install right within your cPanel/WHM.  Simply upload the installer via shell, and follow the online process via WHM’s interface; now it’s installed and ready to go!

If you are one that uses WHMCS, you were probably excited when V4.3.1 came out last year.  After all, WHMCS is already one of the best client billing and support management solutions. V4.3.1 stable release brought us features such as ajax order forms, twitter integration, customizable admin email templates, new addon features and much more.

Recently, WHMCS introduced their latest version, V4.4.1  Let’s take a quick look at some of the newest features to show how they will benefit both you and your clients.

Probably the most exciting features added are those that bring more optimization.  This is a feature that everyone can agree is beneficial, after all, who doesn’t like to get every last bit of performance out of their system!

For those who found the ajax order forms useful, there have been some improvements to this such as the ability to prevent orders when out of stock, custom client field support as well as fixes to the last version.

If you take advantage of the Multi-Language features, there is now Admin Area support with the ability to upgrade and downgrade.  Also in this area there are added invoicing features such as the ability to split and merge invoices, mass product/service updates, added options for credit card processing, updated PayPal language settings, as well as many other domain management and support system adds, fixes and improvements.

WHMCS is already a popular choice, not only here at LicenseCube, but globally.  If you haven’t gotten a chance to update to the latest version, you can do so by following these steps:

• Begin by taking a backup of your database through a tool such as phpMyAdmin
• Unzip the contents of the zip file download to a folder on your computer
• Remove the images/logo.jpg file to avoid overwriting your customised logo
• Upload the files to your existing installation folder overwriting any existing files
• Visit the admin area to access the upgrade script
• Accept the license agreement
• Confirm you have backed up your database and click the upgrade button
• Once the script finishes loading, delete the install folder
• Before the upgrade is completed, you must update your custom template with any new or changed template files

For those who are interested in what WHMCS can offer you and your business or just choose other billing system you can learn more at LicenseCube – Billing Systems.