...Really I fail to see how your post is contributing.

At this point it would be somewhat more difficult to go backward, since it would require redoing all servers again.

As mentioned many times, the pool itself is fully functional (as evidenced by our last block), just the front end is not done/working yet.

I'm likely going to just do up a temporary stats front end at the next opportunity just to have some basics available while work is done on the full setup.