In reply to Alec Kinnear.

@George: wait a minute. So, this HostPress is intended to work at low level? Right at the same level as cPanel actually does? Maybe I didn't read so thoroughly the proposal on Indiegogo, or maybe he didnt explained so briefly but consistent like you.
From what I've readed at Indiegogo I understood this glorified WordPress would work in a special account, but within the /home directory. That's what caused such opinions.

Yet, WordPress needs a LAMP platform to work, so he will need to find the workaround to make it work well indpendently of the users wanting to use Apache or nginx, MySQL or Percona or MariaDB, PHP 5.3 or 5.4 or 5.5. He will need to develope a series of plugin to save settings using config files instead storing them in the database to avoid impacting performance of the server. He needs to make this invention to be more platform agnostic in order to make the magic. Sincerely not sure if it is possible with WordPress, or even BackPress. But $150k may be a low budget for something that will have to work into several hundreds of hardware and software combinations.

Also, cPanel, in example, has a very small memory footprint, lower than 5 MB in RAM. How will he improve that when the WP core load consume at least 32 MB of RAM?

If using BackPress, what will then happen? It will use the libraries, but it won't be WordPress as we know it, right? I cannot recall this was explained at Indiegogo, and there's where the confusion comes from.

Anyway, every project has pros and cons, and use to have fans and detractors. So may the luck help you deal with it ;-)