"Now, do you really care if some community bulletin board's database gets owned? Probably not. But I wouldn't run a shopping cart on a shared hoster." I agree.

"Now, do you really care if some community bulletin board's database gets owned? Probably not. But I wouldn't run a shopping cart on a shared hoster." I agree. tptacek is the one who disagrees with you. He thinks there is "never" a good reason to use shared hosting.