Elvag

I guess i get what you mean that ipb's eCommerce suite is just a "addon" but honestly i disagree. you can disable the rest of the "software" like forums pages calendar etc and just use ipb's eCommerce suite which is fantastic by the way!!!!!!!!! you can also make coupons in ipb's eCommerce suite and configure the use of gift cards with third party ad-dons if you really want too dig in. so my vote goes towards ipb's fantastic eCommerce suite! hands down the best out there!

i have always been a "IPBFanGirl" that being said i will never try xenforo but the demo looks nice i guess........ ipb's ecommerce suite is epic by the way!

not even a question this answer is simply as pie if you are poor and do not have money for hardware buy a console, but if you have the cash grab a ps4 / xbox 1 PC remote control and build a super crazy gaming rig the specs would smash any console out there!!!!

protecting yourself from things like mysql injection........ thats funky just make sure everything is up 2 date like your mysql or maria db's etc but my 2 cents for web security is if you do not need ssh access aka remote access 2 the server disable it immediately, this is solid advice i have been brute forced more times than u can imagine simply because i had remote ssh access enabled. also if you are going too use ssh remember that Using public key authentication for SSH is far more secure than using usernames and passwords to authenticate. finally if you do not need remote mysql database access than disable it by setting bind-address=127.0.0.1 in my.cnf configuration file