Hostmaster is a project mainly written in PHP and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
Custom Aegir front end work
This install profile is part of the front end of the Aegir hosting system that also consists of the hosting framework (front end) and the provisioning framework (backend).
The front end and back end are designed to be run separately, and each front end will also be able to drive multiple back ends.
The most up to date information regarding the project and its goals can be found on the Aegir website and the community portal:
http://aegirproject.org http://community.aegirproject.org
To install the complete Aegir system, you first need to install Drush and Provision. See the install instructions provided in the Provision module.