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Fantastico
By admin | December 31, 2007
Many sites these days have web applications. Behind them all is Fantastico which is a commercial script library and it automates the installation of such applications to a website. These scripts generated by Fantastico are administered from the control panel of the website.
When a new application is installed on a website or a new website is started, Fantastico is used. The software creates tables in the database, installs software, gets permission and modifiers the web server configuration files. A lot of very popular websites and services use Fantastico including Wikipedia, blogs, sites that share photos and those that have shopping carts like Amazon, Walmart and others.
Fantastico has made many things possible that would not have been had it not have come into use. It has added whole new features to website which earlier featured nothing more than text. It allows you to do so much more with your website now. The installation scripts are also very easy to use and do not require much expertise on the part of the owner.
Fantastico however is not maintained by the ISP and so there are older versions still in use which are known to have security problems. Also the default configuration is not very secure so when sites are initially set up and do not have a secure system in place, they also become a target for spammers.
However the overall utility of Fantastico is high so it is easy to ignore small flaws. It provides innumerable services that are used in all kinds of sites including shopping sites, social networking sites etc. It is reported to have over a million users all over the world. Fantastico might seem to be blowing its own trumpet with a name like that, but the honest truth is that when text was a norm Fantastico was indeed fantastic.
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