A lot of popular website packages are shipped as Zip archives,or .tar.gz archives, which is nice, because you download everything with one click, don't you?

Generally these systems rely on many modules or sub-modules, as well as additional images (.gif, .jpg, .png), Flash movies, CSS files and Javascript , PHP , ASP, JSP scripts.

A list of some of those packages and their structure:

Icon	Package	Type	# files
	Joomla (1.0.11)	CMS	1977
	Drupal (4.7.5)	CMS	172
	Wordpress (2.0.6)	Blog	322
	phpMyAdmin (2.8.1)	DB	539
	osComemrce (2.2)	eShop	1005

While some hosting providers offer (through their web control panel) the possibility to install such a feature automatically, sometimes what you're looking for (in terms of product and version) is not in the list. 

You may have already had a traumatic experience trying to install such a product on your website using regular FTP transfers.

If so, you're in the right place ! What about uploading to your website the Zip package you've got and deploy (unzip or unpack) it there? That's what ZipDeploy does. Give it a try !