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While I think offering the hosting for such things is a neat angle, I don't know how relevant it is(or how you plan to make money). A default Wordpress install

While I think offering the hosting for such things is a neat angle, I don't know how relevant it is(or how you plan to make money). A default Wordpress install now allows you to search both its theme and plugin directory and install them without ever leaving the comfort of your administrative backend. I'm not quite sure what is available for drupal and the others in terms of plugins and such but it might be a good idea to market to those users in your screencast as apposed to the wordpress users who already have the features you offer available to them. Most of the other services you have listed are also offered as 1 click installs by many web hosts with similar $/month price points for the paid hosting.

flooha 17y ago
I agree, WordPress is not the best example now that it has the "plugin installer" in the administration control panel. I will probably change the app used in the video tour. However, WordPress is the exception, not the rule when it comes to automated plugin installation. Even for apps like phpbb3, which have a mod called "automod" which installs mods automatically, the user still has to download the mod, and then upload it to their server, unzip it, put it in the right directory etc... Flooha eliminates all of that busy work. The real exception is apps like MediaWiki (which runs Wikipedia) and osCommerce. The add-ons (extensions, contributions, etc...) for those apps often modify core code files and it is not as simple as uploading and unzipping. It can be extremely painful to install the easiest add-on for some users who aren't extremely comfortable working with source code. Thanks for the tips!