Have too say I'm disappointed.

I think support should have been a premium service, and not the script.

RLSHOSTING please undertsand that $24 / Year is much cheaper than $5/month which would total out to $60/year. Why do you want to increase the rate ?

Sir please understand Softaculous needs money to grow and survive. People are willing to pay for other Auto Installers and install Softaculous simulatneously. Its a move to let people know Softaculous is 100 scripts.

Sir the point of having so many scripts is to satisfy the needs of many users at the same time. All servers are not able to suite all the 100 scripts and hence a script or two may not work. But we are here to make it work and to look into individual servers requires a great support team.

Please note again existing Licenses will be treated as PREMIUM LICENSES. You neednt pay a BUCK till 31st December 2010.

Softaculous had to take this move as its requiring a lot of financing which is not at all being recovered.
And we have kept a FREE Version having 58 scripts.

Monthly billing will be up as well.
Its your choice.
But at the moment you dont owe us a penny as you still OWN PREMIUM Licenses.

Regards,
Alons

Alons, if you want popularity, then you need to sort out the bugs first and make sure it works on the widest possible cPanel configurations possible.

the lifetime license includes lifetime support and upgrades?

I think it's ok with that prices. $12/year for VPS license it's cheap for me.
Actually I have no problem with Softculous instalation script coz, mostly the errors have found from my system component who never install before. like curl, pdo_mysql. now, after I have rebuild my apache therefore softaculous have running well and smooth .

I like this auto installer coz, they have many script then others.

Now, It's about the softaculous security, sir. How about that ?
It's very important too.

I think this is just a surprise too most users.

The fact still remains that Softaculos is far superior too the alternatives, and the prices are very good.

I have never had many problems with Softaculos, and when I have they have been sorted very promptly.

I couldn't get logged into the client area, when I enter my UN/PW and click enter it just stares at me. Never logs in. Is it my browser or ?

I couldn't get logged into the client area, when I enter my UN/PW and click enter it just stares at me. Never logs in. Is it my browser or ?

I hope you guys plan to continue support after college! Be my luck you 3 will turn into dentists or something

I will go with dedicated server lifetime license when I get logged in.

Thanks

I have a question

Can i get a one time license for unlimited installs/servers?

Was a bit of a surprise move, but I can fully understand your position, "free" is never taken as seriously as paid for services etc, unfortunately.

I've just upgraded to a lifetime license, for the sake of $24 it really isn't much of an issue and I could in theory keep Fantastico running if needed. I'm a student, money isn't exactly in abundance but I think this is well worth it.

Lets just hope you keep it up, thanks for the great system!

So, how do we take benefit from this offer? I have already set it up on a few VPS, and will probably install it on a few more soon. How do I get the discounted prices?

What is your aim? Trying to convince people to pay money for the project just so they can access the most-used scripts, or get as many people use it and have an extensive option available for those that wish to support your software?
If the latter, you need to at least include 2 of the most used scripts per category in the free version. For forums, phpBB3 and either SMF of MyBB.
And so on for all categories. This will make Softaculous more widely used, and once that happens there'll be more people requesting the premium version.

To be frank, though, I think that if you intend to offer a free and a premium version, you should instead of calling 'free' and 'premium', give them different names. Call the free one 'Softaculous' and give the premium one a different name (and preferable also a lay-out that looks professional but is associated with the premium version instead of free version) since those that know Softaculous, probably know it as a free service. Why? Customers can't be fooled that way if there is a clear difference between the free and the premium version. The hosts that advertise Softaculous as one of their services, advertises the 58 scripts version. The hosts that advertise the premium version, though, says they're offering more then 100 scripts. Instead of just saying 'Softaculous, an auto-installer for your favorite scripts', and leaving the customer to guess whether it is the free or the premium version.


Also, with the current setup, I wonder whether the API for creating your own auto-installers to work with Softaculous will still work in the free version. If so, how would you prevent people from just trying to mimic your installation script and offer them for free on the web, thus removing the difference. Another reason for having a different name + lay-out for the premium version.



Just some food for thought, Alons.

Hi i just added my license number to the client area and it's showing up as type dedicated when in fact it's installed on a vps. Is this a known issue?

-ndew

To be frank, though, I think that if you intend to offer a free and a premium version, you should instead of calling 'free' and 'premium', give them different names. Call the free one 'Softaculous' and give the premium one a different name (and preferable also a lay-out that looks professional but is associated with the premium version instead of free version) since those that know Softaculous, probably know it as a free service. Why? Customers can't be fooled that way if there is a clear difference between the free and the premium version. The hosts that advertise Softaculous as one of their services, advertises the 58 scripts version. The hosts that advertise the premium version, though, says they're offering more then 100 scripts. Instead of just saying 'Softaculous, an auto-installer for your favorite scripts', and leaving the customer to guess whether it is the free or the premium version.


Also, with the current setup, I wonder whether the API for creating your own auto-installers to work with Softaculous will still work in the free version. If so, how would you prevent people from just trying to mimic your installation script and offer them for free on the web, thus removing the difference. Another reason for having a different name + lay-out for the premium version.



Just some food for thought, Alons.

Premium includes:
http://www.softaculous.com/softwares
with plans too add 50 more in V2

Can you please include Wordpress in the free version? And can you offer monthly license for dedicated servers at $2/month (because you offer it at $24/year)?

We really havent decided on WordPress at the moment 2.0 is in full swing and another 50 scripts are in the making.
The monthly licenses will be available soon BUT you can even take it RIGHT NOW. Please contact sales. The price is $2.5 as Fixed Payment expenses have to be incurred more!

Regards,
Alons

I don't think the best scripts should be in the free version, why would people upgrade?

Think Alons said 2.50$ for VPS monthly, which is very good.

Alons,

I have a question. I currently have the premium version, well actually, it is the free version before you created the concept of premium and free.

My problem is i'm going to change servers, with different IPs. When I download Softaculous now for my new server, it will be the Free version. How can I possibly have the "premium" version from my old server? Just to make it clear, i dont have a license key. I am using Softaculous even before it became premium. And I want to transfer this to my new server. I hope you can help me.

From what I gathered, you should be able to find your license key in the admin panel of Softaculous (not the client area, but the admin panel on your server). Enter the license key in the client area and change the IP. Done...

Thanks for the suggestions guys.
It really does help.
We are discussing this issue out and by 1st September we will formally annouce the decision

Hello.

I have been a member here from when you guys started so i would like to know a few things.

Do i get a discount because from the email it said i do..
Can the lisence be changed, for example a move to a new server?
Can i pay monthly with my discount..?

Thanks.

Still waiting for the announcement ;)

We have decided not to add it for now.
Once we are at 150 scripts we will reconsider the decision.

The reason for it is because we need to endorse the Scripts which Endorse Softaculous First. The scripts included have already announced that Softaculous installs their respective scripts.

I think that is the correct decision however I think less FREE scripts will endorse Softaculous now it is mainly premium.

Alons, I'd like to ask you this: What are you aiming to do with Softaculous, both in the near future and on long term? As your current decision says to me that you rather have Softaculous expanding slowly but with mainly premiums, instead of having lots of users and have a smaller number of premiums.

Sir we do want a wider userbase free or premium is irrespective.
As I mentioned earlier we need to respect scripts which endorse Softaculous first.

If wordpress and phpbb had endorsed Softaculous we would have definitely added them as well in the Free version.
We had approached both of them and none even made a mention of Softaculous.

Others have heartily promoted Softaculous.
We are giving A good Product (FREE Version) even then.

And as I said Softaculous is going through amazing changes that will excite everyone when these changes are implemented.

Please understand my point.

Regards,
Alons

This reminds me: Is the API still available for creating your own installation scripts, in the free version?

The API designed was always to integrate scripts at Softaculous for all of Softaculous.
It was a guide of how a script vendor can make their script available to all.

Even in the Premium Version there is no such feature.
We will add it in the near future.

Regards,
Alons

Your forum account is the login details for your client area:
http://www.softaculous.com/buyinginfo

Regards,
Alons

Could you please make it possible to delete an invoice ?
I mistakenly created one and I can't figure how to discard it.

Thank you.

I have a server and I am moving. I sold my current server to someone else. My problem is softaculous is already installed in the old server. I already updated the license number of the installation to the free one and move my premium to my new server. But when i checked the old server it is still using the premium license and not the free license. How do I fix that?

You will have to update the IPs in the client center.
And
$2.5 is inclusive of everything.

Regards,
Alons