Lawrie,
A recent fix was hacked within hours (and then again a day later), and I've decided to just shut down sites in this format and notify owners ..
Ya do what ya have to do.
In my recent experience Joomla sites have the least amount of up time before hacking than any other common format lately.
I would NOT recommend going with this format for a new site.
It can get ugly fast.

I've isolated our WP sites to a limited number of web servers and DB Servers .. and have simply shut down Joomla sites and declined hosting any new ones in the recent past.

YMMV, just my experience.
I know you are in the (relatively) same industry so thought I'd share my recent experiences.


I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!