Work began on Installatron in the opening months of 2004, with the singular aim to bring a Fantastico-like auto-installer to the DirectAdmin control panel. The first public release, a free version that installed just Invision Power Board, PHP-Nuke, and Coranto, came in March 2004, and was followed by version 1.0, the first commercial release, later in the same month.

Version 2.0, with a more robust installer system with many more installers, followed in June, and 2.4 saw the inclusion of install upgrading. Things were starting to get serious.

Version 3.0, in July 2005, introduced support for the cPanel/WHM control panel, bringing Installatron to Fantastico's long-established personal hunting ground. A silent war that continues to be waged to this day. October of the same year added Plesk Reloaded (now called Plesk Linux) to the list of supported control panels.

Early in 2007 the "i5" project was initiated, which aimed to take everything we had learned from three years of Installatron and create a genuine, next-generation auto-installer system. Beta testing on this complete re-write began in October, and was finally release as version 5.0 in January of 2008.

September 2008 saw the release of 5.1, and the introduction of the Free Single-Domain Edition; a fully-featured version that is completely free to use on a single-domain. This replaced the "free three-day demonstration license" that had been in place since the original release.

Accompanying the Free Edition release was the addition of Converter, an administration tool that allows for the conversion, to Installatron format, installs created by Fantastico, Application Vault, CPAddon Scripts, CPSkins Auto-Installer Pro, and CPSkins PSA-Installer Pro. This will allow for a seamless migration to Installatron.

Plesk Windows support was released on the very last day of 2008, along with the "Control Panel Integration API", and open API format that allows Installatron to be integrated into just about any hosting control panel or GUI.

April 2009 saw the release of 6.0.

Phillip Stier is a software developer who specializes in web-based applications. Before Liquenox Projects he worked on the open source News Pro and Coranto CMS projects.

Rowan Crawford is an artist and writer who specializes in interface design. Before Liquenox Projects he worked on the News Pro, Coranto CMS projects, Worldcraft, as well as game projects like Quake Rally, Quess, and StarWoids.