Here's just a few reasons why your customers and your staff will love Installatron Plugin.
Impeccably clean and simple.Drawing on case studies and feedback received over the past nine years, the Installatron Plugin user-interface has been refined to provide an experience that is powerful, elegant and intuitive for even the most inexperienced website owners. Website owners will pick up Installatron Plugin in seconds or minutes, not hours or days. Signifiant user-interface changes are focus group tested, so you can rest assured Installatron Plugin will always be incredibly simple and intuitive.
A universal search and filtering bar streamlines searching for and filtering available applications, installed applications, and backups.
The workflow of all tasks, from installing to upgrading and restoring, use a standardized "one click" navigation and workflow. Instantly intuitive to new website owners, this model enables tasks to be completed rapidly and without navigating through multiple steps or pages.
Standardization across all tasks gives Installatron an almost horizontal learning curve.
Installatron Plugin launches every task as a managed background process, enabling an accurate task progress bar and freeing the website owner to perform other tasks or even log out of the control panel while the task completes.
Website owners are optionally notified by email as tasks complete, and tasks are intelligently managed such that if one task fails, any queued tasks for the same installed application are aborted.
Website owners with multiple installed applications will appreciate the availability of standardized multi-select options, enabling tasks to be grouped so that, for example, a series of upgrades or backups can be performed as a single process.
Installed applications are easily identifiable through preview images displayed on the My Applications tab.
Many buttons have informative tooltips that provide that little bit of extra information to help clarify exactly what the button does.
Only the best web applications.We scour the web in search of the most mature and highest-quality web applications. The collection of web applications provided by Installatron Plugin is the result of this effort; a highly mature, thoroughly tested, and genuinely top-shelf collection of web applications.
Applications are regularly updated as new versions are released. We understand the necessity of rapid security release availability and have designed our workflow to guarantee security releases and other critical bugfix releases are tested and deployed within hours of release by the application vendor, including holiday and non-business day releases.
Feedback and suggestions guide our evaluation of new and unique applications. When an application meets our standards, we contact the vendor for approval, package the application for inclusion, and publish the application package.
To guide website owners in selecting the most suitable application for the task at hand, applications are categorized by their intended purpose, and each category includes a helpful description.
Applications can be searched by keyword, enabling website owners to quickly find a specific application or type of application.
Applications can be filtered to only display if they're capable of being installed in the website owner's native language, and applications can be filtered to only display if no database is required.
Services the entire application lifecycle.Installatron Plugin services the entire application lifecycle, from discovering and installing an application, updating as new versions become available, enabling backup, restore, migration, clone and staging functionality, and one day safely uninstalling the application.
Website owners can browse, search, and filter available web applications, find information about each application, view usage screenshots, sample websites, version-to-version changes, take the application for a test drive, see related applications, and discover links to homepages, documentation, FAQs, support forums and more.
Showcase highlights websites powered by an application to demonstrate to website owners the range of capabilities provided by the application.
Live Demo empowers website owners to test drive and evaluate applications by providing pre-installed instances of each application. Live Demo resets each instance every couple of hours, and multiple instances per application are available to minimize parallel usage conflicts and enable evaluation of different languages and configuration options.
Server administrators can optionally use the Live Demo Server tool to host an instance of Live Demo on the local server.
Applications can be installed anywhere within the HTTP and HTTPS directories of all domains, sub-domains, addon-domains, and the account's server home directory. This includes the root-directory, any sub-level directory, international domains (IDN's), and even HTTP password protected directories.
Unless restricted, any version of the application can be installed, and multiple install options are available to select the desired language, sample data configuration, and more. However, Installatron always defaults to installing the latest version in the website owner's native language.
An effort is made to publish every complete localization that is supported by the application vendor. Most applications are available in 30+ languages. Furthermore, when installed applications are updated the installed localization is updated too.
As new versions become available installed applications can be updated. All applications are supported! When an installed application is updated the installed language translation is updated to match the new version, and for WordPress specifically plugins and themes can also optionally be updated. The option to create a backup is always provided prior to starting any update process.
Website owners are optionally notified by email immediately as a new version of an installed application becomes available. Security releases and versions that introduce significant changes are further identified to provide better distinction from regular minor versions.
Installed applications can be configured to automatically backup and automatically update immediately as new versions become available, with the ability to only automatically update to new minor versions and security releases, or automatically update to any new version. In the event an automatic update fails, the created backup is automatically restored.
A log of application changes from version-to-version is integrated right into the Installatron workflow, and each version is classified to distinguish between critical security releases, versions that introduce significant changes, and regular minor versions.
Backups of installed applications can be created, rapidly compressing the application's files and database tables into a gzip-compressed archive that can optionally be downloaded to conserve disk space. Whenever necessary, backups can be restored to return the application to the state it was in when the backup was created, whether or not the original application is still installed.
Installed applications can be backed up to FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, WebDAV, and Dropbox instead of or in addition to the local server. Server administrators and resellers can fully configure which options are available.
Enabled at install time or later by editing an installed application, Automatic Backup will automatically maintain installed application backups based on the selected schedule. Backups are created, rotated and deleted between midnight and 6AM server time to maintain the selected schedule, and a failed backup will never rotate a working backup. Automatic Backup can maintain backups on the local server or at FTP/FTPS/SSH/WebDAV/Dropbox and cloud locations (entirely configurable the server administrator).
Backups can be organized with a label that better describes exactly why the backup was created.
Backups can be restored to any location. Use a backup as the basis for a new installation, or restore a backup overwriting the source install.
Clone and staging are revolutionary features that enable installed applications to be duplicated to a different location. Clone can be used to test an upgrade before applying it to a production install, to create a sandbox to test mods, plugins, or themes, or simply to to duplicate an installed application. Staging using the Sync wizard enables any changes to a cloned or staged installed application to be synced with the version of the same installed application. The uses are endless!
Any account location is a valid destination, including the root directory and any sub-directory of all sub-domains, addon domains, and domain aliases. All files, directories, and database tables are duplicated, and application settings are updated for the new location.
When cloning an installed application the settings for the destination installed application can either be inherited from the source installed application or new values can be set. Examples of settings include the administrator login and email, site title and localization, automatic update configuration, and more.
Clone can also be used from the Server Administrator and Reseller logins, enabling installed applications to be cloned between accounts.
The sync wizard overwrites an installed application with the content of another installed application. To get started, use the clone or staging wizard from the "My Applications" tab to create a staging site for development and testing purposes, then use the sync wizard to deploy the changes on the live site.
Existing installed applications can be imported into Installatron Plugin, and applications installed on remote web hosting servers can be migrated to any location within the local web hosting account by utilizing the remote server's FTP, FTPS, or FTPS/SSH information.
When an application is no longer needed it can be removed safely. Only files and database tables known to be associated with the installed application are removed, nullifying the risk of unintentionally deleting other files and database tables.
WordPress is one of the most popular applications available today. WordPress has a particular focus throughout Installatron Plugin.
Installatron Plugin can update WordPress plugins and themes just as it does WordPress itself. WordPress plugins and themes occasionally suffer from security vulnerabilities that require plugin or theme updates to keep a website secure. Traditionally this would require updating the affected plugin or theme for each website individually, but with Installatron Plugin the process is automated and no more than a couple clicks.
Stay even more uptodate by configuring WordPress plugins and themes to automatically backup and update as new versions become available. This setting defaults off as plugin and theme updates can cause websites to break (resellers and server administrators can change the default).
Using the administrative link now automatically logs the session right into the WordPress administrative area using a secure login method.
International.Installatron Plugin is used in all corners of the globe. To serve an international market, Installatron Plugin has been developed from the ground up to support international domain names, multi-lingual applications, user-interface localizations, and more.
The Installatron Plugin user-interface is available in more than 28 languages, including but not limited to Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Installatron Plugin supports multidirectional text rendering, allowing user-interface localizations to display characters from right to left, and all localizations are created in Unicode, the accepted international encoding standard.
Installatron Plugin user-interface translations can easily be customized and added for unsupported localizations using the Installatron Collaborative Translation Editor.
Installatron Plugin supports the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) standard, enabling applications to be installed and maintained on non-English websites.
Save considerable time by using Installatron Plugin to install and upgrade applications in different languages. When an application is upgraded, the installed language package is also updated.
An effort is made to publish every complete localization that is supported by the application vendor. Some applications, such as MediaWiki, are available in 50+ languages.
Read more: FAQ: How many languages are the applications available to be installed and upgraded in?
Read more: Installatron Collaborative Translation Editor
Support & Documentation.Anytime a little help (or a lot) is required, rest assured the Installatron team will respond professionally in a timely fashion. Both ticket-based and email support is available at no additional cost.
Every response from our support team is hand-crafted to the individual problem. We don't use scripts, templates or canned responses to solve problems — our customers deserve more.
Everything from troubleshooting information, billing system integration guides, full API documentation, an application packaging SDK, localization information, and more is available through the Installatron Support portal.
Full website owner and administration guides are available at no additional cost through the Installatron Support portal. These guides can also be downloaded in HTML format and rebranded.
When an error occurs, the technical information is logged and a short message in layman's terms is displayed to the website owner. Website owners aren't inundated with technical information they won't be able to use.
The admin-level "Converter" tool is designed to automatically locate and import installed applications from the current versions of competing products, including Fantastico, Softaculous, Plesk Power Pack (aka Application Vault), cPAddon Scripts, CPSkins Auto-Installer Pro, and CPSkins PSA-Installer Pro.
Just open an Installatron support ticket for assistance migrating from a competitor to Installatron Plugin. We'll be pleased to help at no cost to you!
Read more: Installatron Support Portal
Seamless control panel integration.A native "plugin" is developed for each control panel, enabling Installatron Plugin to integrate seamlessly with the control panel and even inherit the control panel's theme. Installatron Plugin feels like it's an integral function of the control panel, not a separate product.
In addition to the default theme that inherits the control panel's theme, Installatron Plugin also includes a full screen "modern" theme, and custom themes can be created.
Installatron Plugin fully and automatically integrates with the popular RVSkin and CleanPanel cPanel themes.
Integration with other control panels can be enabled through the Installatron Server Integration API. To enable support for proprietary control panels, continue to our Installatron Server product instead.
Read more: FAQ: What are the system requirements?
Read more: Documentation: Installatron Server Integration API
Read more: Product: Installatron Server
Security & Privacy.From conception security consciousness has been a central design goal for Installatron Plugin. However, our security consciousness doesn't end with our product — we also guarantee rapid deployment of application security releases to help ensure customers' installed applications are secure too.
Installatron Plugin executes all website owner tasks with user-level privileges, avoiding potential security flaws introduced when tasks execute with root-level privileges.
When applications are installed a secure administrative login password is suggested, and Installatron Plugin does not cache or retain the chosen password.
Installatron's Rapid Update Guarantee delivers application security releases 24/7/365. We understand the necessity of rapid security release availability and have designed our workflow to guarantee critical security releases are tested and deployed within hours of release by the application vendor, including holiday and non-business day releases.
We have a solid track record of delivering on this promise — don't leave your customers vulnerable by our competitors' inability to rapidly deliver security releases.
Updates to application and localization packages are automatically downloaded once per day.
When a new application version becomes available, website owners with installed instances of the application are notified by email of the new version (can be disabled), or alternatively, installed applications can be configured to automatically backup and update as new versions become available, significantly reducing the amount of time installed applications are vulnerable to security exploits.
Automatic Update can be configured to only update to new minor versions and security releases, or it can be configured to update to any new version. In the event an automatic update fails, the created backup is automatically restored.
Rock-solid reliability.Installatron Plugin is designed to maximize compatibility while minimizing maintenance and requirements. All server configurations supported by a control panel are also supported by Installatron Plugin, and the server administrator should never need to service Installatron Plugin after it's installed.
Installatron Plugin is installed on and hosted by your server entirely, guaranteeing the highest reliability and smoothest website owner experience. No connection to Installatron's licensing servers is necessary for regular operation.
Testing is completed on hundreds of server configurations; on Linux, CloudLinux, Debian, FreeBSD, and Windows, on many VPS systems, on Apache, Lighttpd, and Nginx, with and without common server features like suphp, fastcgi, mod_ruid, and safe_mode, and no conflicts arise from operation alongside other auto-installers and common third-party software.
Installatron Plugin core version updates utilize three release channels -- edge, release, and stable -- which can be used to ensure new features and additions have reached maturity prior to introduction.
Server administrations can choose to manage Installatron Plugin versioning themselves by selecting the do not upgrade option, which turns off automatic updates for the Installatron Plugin core.
Rather than relying on Installatron's staggered release channels, RPM and Debian packages are available to enable server administrations to manage Installatron Plugin versioning using standardized packages from the Installatron package repository.
An Installatron Update/Repair utility is actively developed and is designed to fix most problems that can occur with Installatron Plugin. This utility can be executed any time difficulties are experienced—there is no harm in executing the utility; it's always the first thing to try.
Step-by-step instructions to remove Installatron Plugin from a server are available for all supported control panels. Once removed, no trace of Installatron Plugin will remain on the server.
Read more: Installatron Plugin Server Requirements
Read more: Installatron Plugin Uninstallation
Profitable.Installatron Plugin makes it easier than ever to deploy and manage web applications. Fast-track business growth and customer satisfaction by empowering your customers with Installatron's premier library of easy-to-use web applications. They'll thank you for it.
Add tremendous value to web hosting packages by empowering customers that otherwise wouldn't know where to begin to deploy web applications. Potential customers will be more likely to purchase after seeing what's possible with Installatron Plugin, and existing customers will be more likely to renew after experiencing just how easy Installatron Plugin makes managing web applications.
In addition to adding value to existing packages, Installatron Plugin empowers server administrators and resellers with tools to upsale customers to larger packages.
With Access Control, resellers and server administrators can limit access to applications per customer or web hosting package. Completely deactivate specific applications, or display specific applications in a disabled state until the customer follows an embedded link to a billing system that can automatically upgrade their account. In the image on the right, applications that require MySQL are disabled due to the customer being assigned a web hosting package without MySQL databases.
Quotas limit the number of installed applications or backups customers can have at the same time. A customized message is displayed when a quota is exceeded until the customer follows an embedded link to a billing system that can automatically upgrade their account. All quotas can be configured per customer or web hosting package and are applied per account or per domain. Application Quotas support multiple applications per quota, and Backup Quotas can be set differently for each backup location, with support per megabyte or per backup count restrictions and the ability to prune old backups.
Installatron Plugin can increase traffic to your company's website by optionally adding a theme-matching and completely configurable "hosted by" link to each installed application.
Recover significant server disk space by switching application backup storage from the local server to a remote location. Administrators and resellers can add a custom backup location for website owner use and disable the "local server" backup location. Any FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, WebDAV, or Dropbox account can be used as the basis for the custom backup location, and quotas for the custom backup location can be enabled through the Backup Quotas feature.
Our customers guide all product development through open communication channels. Through excellent feedback, customer surveys, and some complaints too, our customers have moulded Installatron Plugin into a solution that does precisely what they require.
A free version, 45-day free trial, and flexible paid licensing models are available to meet a wide range of needs. Continue to the pricing page for more information.
Medium and large providers benefit from becoming an Installatron Partner, which enables further licensing discounts and strengths the relationship between Installatron and the provider. We're 100% committed to our partners' success.
Read more: Installatron Plugin Pricing
Comprehensively customizable.Installatron Plugin has many advanced and comprehensive administrative controls that make managing a server with Installatron a breeze. Here's just a few highlights.
The User Group system incorporated into Installatron Plugin enables nearly all settings to be configured differently for specific website owners and web hosting packages.
The Access Control tool enables server administrators and resellers to precisely control which applications are available to specific website owners and web hosting packages. Applications can be deactivated, flagged as disabled for installation, highlighted as featured, and more.
Installatron Plugin has been designed from the ground up with seamless integration of a company brand and/or website theme in mind.
The Installatron name can be changed, user-interface CSS and images can be modified, email templates can be modified, control panel icons and links can be modified, all text displayed throughout the user-interface can be changed, and backups and other datafiles use a generic structure that doesn't reveal Installatron. Even the buttons linking to Installatron within the control panel theme can be renamed differently for different website owners and web hosting packages.
Create and manage pre-configured application templates for website owners to choose between for new installations. It's even possible to entirely replace the default template.
Control precisely which features are enabled. Don't want to offer installed application backup and restore functionality? Don't want to offer installed application clone functionality? These options and more are available to be turned off.
Administrators and resellers can define their own backup locations for website owner use. Any FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, WebDAV, or Dropbox account can be used as the basis for the custom backup location, and quotas for the custom backup location can be configured through the Backup Quotas feature.
Server administrators and resellers have full access to owned accounts right through the administrative panel, without the need to log in as the owned account. All features are available; applications can be installed, imported, and migrated, and installed applications can be upgraded, cloned, edited, backup/restored, and uninstalled.
Server administrators and resellers can clone installed application between different accounts right through the administrative panel.
Server administrators and resellers can forcibly upgrade any installed application on the server, and installed applications can be configured to automatically upgrade as new versions are released, if desired. WordPress plugins and themes can also be forcibly updated through the same system.
Reseller control panel.The reseller control panel enables resellers to configure Installatron Plugin different for their customers. The server administrator can also control which features and settings resellers can configure.
With Installatron Plugin, resellers gain access to a full-featured administrative panel, nearly identical in look and function to the main server administrator panel. This unprecedented level of flexibility enables resellers to take full advantage of Installatron Plugin.
Unless restricted by the server administrator, resellers can configure branding separate just for their customers, including renaming the button linking to Installatron within the control panel theme.
Extendable.Installatron Plugin is designed to be easily extended with additional application packages, modifications to existing application packages, a full suite of automation APIs, and more.
Installatron's open application packaging format enables anyone with minimal programming knowledge to create application packages, for any web application. There's even an online Application Package Editor to simplify the task further!
In addition to the ability to create whole application packages, a modification system is included that enables changes to be made to any version of any application we offer. This system can be used to add additional languages, add plugins or templates, or make just about any customization. Best of all, the system is designed to be simple and only requires very minimal programming knowledge!
Installatron's Application Programming Interface (API) is a development interface that enables developers and system administrators to directly interface with all Installatron systems. In fact, the Installatron Plugin GUI is built using the same API. Both a HTTP API that accepts JSON input and a command-line based API are available.
It's easy to configure WHMCS and other billing systems to pre-install applications and execute other tasks as new web hosting accounts are provisioned. Documentation and sample billing system modules are included to jump start integration.
Read more: Documentation: Application Packaging SDK and Guide
Read more: Documentation: Application Package Modification and Customization Guide
Read more: Documentation: Installatron Plugin API and Install Automation Guide
Read more: Documentation: WHMCS billing system integration
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