In reply to Pippinsplugins (@pippinsplugins).

Yep, yours and Justin's points of view are very very nice and made me feel a bad guy.
I also love to help others to find solutions and donate time helping dreams to come true, but I just won't encourage people to embark in what could end being a bad dream. And 10 to 1 this project could lead to a bad dream, for Griffiths, who will be facing the financial risks of keeping up with it.

I know, Graham Bell was called mad, and Wright brothers were also called alike.
To soften my agressive point of view, maybe Griffiths should be pointed in a less dangerous direction.

He probably won't be able to manage an entire webserver, BUT... he could focus on cPanel API and build a plugin from which you can manage some basic things from one individual domain panel. Not the entire server. If that works, then he could focus on WHMCS API and build a WP based and themifiable hosting manager, ideal to build themes for small hosting companies, and even web designers in the need to resell their hosting spaces to their customers. Now that could work. WPMU have done a good job with its Pro Sites plugin to resell multisite spaces, and there are a couple plugins to connect to cPanel and WHMCS, but not quite nicely designed. He could start improving that and take it to a new level. But always relying on some server management software.

And believe me, I'd wish I were horribly wrong :)
Best wishes