[Blue|Fusion]

From my experiences hosting myself and others...using cPanel or Fantastico to install software such as phpBB is a bad idea. It complicates upgrades, it removes any modifications you may ever do to your code, it's usually a month or two behind updates (even critical security updates). It's much easier to download the changed files or patch file (if you modified alot of code) and just run the update script to update the database. It keeps things cleaner and working better, as well as preventing bad habits if you do things manually and learn from it.
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