What is Softaculous?

[Ritu]

Hello everyone,
I noticed that some of the hosting providers offer Softaculous with their hosting plans.
So can you guys tell me what is it exactly? And what are its uses?

[Keeran]

Softaculous is used to install commercial and open source web applications to your website.
Its scripts are executed from the administrative area of a website control panel via an interface tool like cPanel and Plesk.
Many of the hosting providers offer this feature with their hosting plan so that you can install CMSs Joomla, Drupal, etc.

[Gandhar Kulkarni]

Hello everyone,
I noticed that some of the hosting providers offer Softaculous with their hosting plans.
So can you guys tell me what is it exactly? And what are its uses?

Softaculous is the leading Auto Installer for cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, InterWorx, H-Sphere. It has 450 great scripts and we are still adding more.
It is widely used in the Web Hosting industry and it has helped millions of users install applications by the click of a button. Softaculous Auto Installer easily integrates into leading Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, InterWorx, H-Sphere.

[Krishnan]

Softaculous is majorly used software auto-installer for cPanel that can install scripts and PHP classes.
Many hosting providers offer Softaculous so that user can install most used applications like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc to their hosting account. Installing these apps with Softaculous is very easy, or you can say it allows users to install such apps in just a click.

[DipakS]

Hello everyone,
I noticed that some of the hosting providers offer Softaculous with their hosting plans.
So can you guys tell me what is it exactly? And what are its uses?

Softaculous is an auto application installer with for control panels such as cPanel and DirectAdmin. Softaculous is much faster and completely composed for installing all scripts in just one click or step. It consists of a broad variety of applications such as e-commerce solutions, blogs, forums, and content management systems.
With Softaculous any newbie can easily WordPress through their cPanel control panel and start their blogging.