Installatron is a multi-platform application installer

Installation (computer programs)

Installation of a program is the act of putting the program onto a computer system so that it can be executed....

 that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting web applications. Installatron is available as a plug-in for popular web hosting control panels.

Applications provided by Installatron are many and cover a broad number of categories. Common categories include:

1. Web content management system
   Web content management system
   A web content management system is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease...
   
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2. Shopping cart software
   Shopping cart software
   Shopping cart software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online, analogous to the American English term 'shopping cart'...
   
   
3. Wiki
   Wiki
   A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
   
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4. Blog
   Blog
   A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
   
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5. Photo sharing
   Photo sharing
   Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
   
   

A full list of applications and versions is available from the developer.

In 2008, it was made possible to activate Installatron for free for a single domain while maintaining all the functionality.

In 2009, Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 support was made available, adding support for the Parallels Plesk Windows

Plesk

The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003...

 and cPanel Enkompass

CPanel

cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site...

 web hosting control panels.

Other similar software such as Fantastico (web hosting)

Fantastico (web hosting)

Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel...

 or APS Repository exists.

System requirements

Installatron is multi-platform and compatible with Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, BSD, and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. The developers maintain support for these web hosting control panels:

• cPanel/WHM
  CPanel
  cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site...
  
  
• cPanel Enkompass
  CPanel
  cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site...
  
  
• DirectAdmin
  DirectAdmin
  DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications...
  
  
• InterWorx
  InterWorx
  InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's...
  
  
• Kloko/LxAdmin
  Kloxo
  Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data...
  
  
• Parallels Plesk Linux/FreeBSD/Unix
  Plesk
  The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003...
  
  
• Parallels Plesk Windows
  Plesk
  The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003...