From a few of the responses here, it seems that there has been a slight misunderstanding regarding both me and the goals of HostPress. First, let me take a moment to provide a little about my position in the industry.

Somehow, a few people have gotten the idea that I'm a designer. This is most likely due to my comments on the design flaws in cPanel and Plesk. For the record, I'm NOT a designer, by any stretch of the imagination. I'm relatively competent in terms of using things like Photoshop and Illustrator, but that's about the extent of it. Rather, these days I spend the vast majority of my time doing WordPress development. To date, I have over twenty plugins on WordPress.org, at least that many commercial plugins written for Easy Digital Downloads, and a handful of general commercial plugins for WordPress available through CodeCanyon and my website.

However, I've only been working with WordPress for the last few years. Pre-WordPress, my background is in Linux development. I'm a former Arch Linux core developer, and have contributed to numerous Linux projects, including the kernel, over the years. I've even written my own display manager! In short... developer, not designer.

Second, it seems that people think that HostPress is intended to be a plugin allowing control of a server from inside an existing WordPress instance. This is FAR from the intended purpose! If I failed to explain my purpose well enough, I apologize. The goal of HostPress is to utilize the core of WordPress as a framework for building a standalone software suite through which one can control a server. This isn't a 'chicken-or-egg' scenario, HostPress won't be run through the Apache (or NGINX) instance it controls any more than cPanel or Plesk run through their own Apache instances.

If anyone has any specific questions, personal or technical, PLEASE ask!