1 & 1 – Read the FAQ

In response to my article 1&1 = 3.

Marc found this interesting note in the FAQ section of 1 & 1 :

Can the memory usage limit be increased on shared hosting with a php.ini file?

Due to resource limits on our Shared Hosting machines, it is not possible to allocate more than 20M of memory to PHP, although phpinfo() may report a higher number. You will be unable to increase the memory usage limit with a php.ini file.

Very cool note 🙂 Especially when you are check the memory limit via your PHP script. Time to change the hoster…

1&1 = 3 ???

In the last weeks several users report a failure of NextGEN Gallery. All of the users are using a web hosting of 1&1, current environment is : Apache/1.3.34 Ben-SSL/1.55 PHP/4.4.8

These users are not able to generate thumbnails (the script suddenly stopped) or get a memory failure message. The phpinfo() returns a memory_limit of 40 MB, normally enough for a 1600x 1400 resolution in a WordPress environment.

Thanks to Nana Torres, I’m able to debug this on a 1&1 web server and after 5 hours I found that imagecreatefromjpeg() stopped if you require more than 20 MB. This happened very early , when you uses a larger images. UPDATE : See FAQ

You can test this on your machine, with the attached script. If you see at the end a “*** SCRIPT END ***” your are not having the troubles…

Download 1&1 Test script
Simple PHP script

 

Update : See comment of Philip D. , PHP5 seems to do the work…