Hi Scott,

In my limited experience, and I mean limited, you have found the problem only seem unable to make the necessary changes. Unless there's another way to bump up your memory allocation your page will hang. So, the situation is you can't go forward with your project and that's what I would be extremely frustrated about. I suggest that either your find out what your webmaster prefers to eat drink or wear and then you send him/her some donuts, bottle of red or a pair of new shoes. Alternatively, consider another provider. I recently moved away from 1und1 and have been happy with my new provider (www.a-mazing.de). I recommend sending an email to Gregor (gregor.hermens@a-mazing.de) explain the situation in either english or german and get a quote. Gregor is approachable and seems to understand Moodle's requirements therefore, he should help you get going pretty quickly.

Cheers
Ivan

SvN,

Perhaps it would help if you tell them why you want them to restart Apache. The point is, generally, if you have your own server, so you have total control over configuration files like httpd.conf and php.ini, you can restart Apache anytime you want. When you want to change a setting, you edit one of the configuration file, then you restart Apache to make it effective.

When you are using a shared commercial web host (as opposed to a dedicated commercial web host, presumably like the one 1and1 wants to charge you $99+ a month for), you are dependent on the host to provide you with alternate means of changing the configuration for your site, like .htaccess and custom php.ini files, both of which are supported by 1and1. Because they have total control over Apache, PHP, MySQL, and the configuration files, and they apply to all their clients. They're not going to restart Apache or MySQL and inconvenience all their clients every time one of them makes a settings change.

So ask them what needs to be done to make your settings changes take effect; and whether it is possible to raise the memory_limit above 128K. Frankly, that seems a bit high. It makes me wonder whether there is some inefficiency that is causing it to require more memory than it should, and that's a question for the Hardware and Performance forum.

If that doesn't help, perhaps you should take IA's advice and change hosts.

RLE

I'm pretty happy with Daily Razor.. You should consider them Scott.

My package is pretty close to the bottom rung, yet they've always provided me with very decent service, including resetting my MySQL database after I had problems with UTF8 unicode.