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Get running faster. Now sign up for any shared or multi-site web hosting plan and get today's cutting edge pre-installed software bundles pre-installed absolutely free. No more configuring your databases, making users and passwords, and all the other things that took hours to do in the past. One-click installation by you loads the script and creates the database, all from a simple mouse-click. And guess what? We also throw in Fantastico De Luxe which is an expansion pack that offers roughly 50 more brand-name scripts....FREE on every single hosting package from GlowHost.

What are pre-installed scripts? Pre-installed scripts are working installations of FULLY customizable, open-source scripts that are available to you in your control panel. All you need to do is choose the script you like, tell the control panel what location you would like to install it on, then click the "install" option. No more spending hours trying to install complex scripts by hand. No more configuring files by hand, no more tricky database setups. It is completely automated. Upgrades are just as easy. When an upgrade is available, you can simply use the upgrade option to bring your scripts to the current version. Our popular pre-installed script selection includes some of today's hottest, and most widely used scripts.

Below is a sample of what pre-installed scripts we are currently offering, and does not include every script available to you in your control panel. New scripts are added all the time, so this is a general outline of what you can expect to find in your new GlowHost control panel.

YaBB
Quite possibly the best forum and bulletin board system on the market...Yours Free! YaBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable open source bulletin board package. We chose Yabb as our primary pre-installed BBS due to the fact that is a much more secure bulletin board system than some of the more hack-prone PHP Bulletin Board systems that are available. YaBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful server side scripting and MySQL, YaBB is the ideal free community and bulletin board solution for all web sites. It features unlimited forums and posts, multiple languages, private or public forums, a powerful search option, private messaging, avatars, signatures, and more. There is a strong community support following YaBB and support is available from the YaBB site. Take a peek at YaBB now!

OS CommerceLite Commerce
We offer two of the leading PHP based shopping carts on the market today. These are one-click installations! Both are enabled with fully customizable templates which means you are up and running with a custom cart in about 1/3rd of the time as a conventional shopping cart. OS Commerce supports all the popular credit card processors, and can be used with our free merchant account offer. Lite Commerce is a more professional-level shopping cart and the base version allows for 25 products and supports PayPal Pro and Authorize.net, and can also be used in cunjunction with our free merchant account offer. There are many available options for each cart like integrated online check and support for running credit cards via your existing merchant account at your physical storefront or online gateway....You really can not beat GlowHost's e-Commerce solution. Combine it with your Free SSL Certificate and you are in business in a flash! We also offer Agora Cart, Zen Cart and serveral other cart scripts.

Mambo
Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. mambo is fast becoming the content management system (CMS) of choice for many webmasters due to its scale-ability, and great looking template set. Easy to use administrative back end is great for all user levels and can make building a comprehensive website easy do to its flexible, easily expandable page addition system. Mambo has a very strong community support following and support for mambo can be found on many sites on the web. We have large-scale corporations running their web sites based on the mambo software package. A great place to view more features of the mambo CMS package can be found on mamboserver.com

Postnuke CMS
Another industry leader, Postnuke, a PHP Nuke derivative is a fantastic content management system. Again a one-click install and you have a ready to go online community, blog, or custom Web site. Webmasters often use PHP Nuke to let their web design clients update their own sites without having to contact the web master every time they need text changed or page content changed. PHP Nuke is so powerful you will be wondering what took you so long to find GlowHost and our pre-installed scripts package.

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