respone from hosting site:
im afraid we dont permit adjustmnents of the php.ini file anymore on a site by site basis
having said that the memory limit is 96Mb and Max Post size is 32Mb and there should be no need for any higher values
They did give me the option to upgrade the plan to my own VM instance where I can change the details.
.htaccess reads:
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
</ifModule>
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
<filesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=259200, public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=21600, private"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=21600, public, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1, private, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
</ifModule>
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</ifModule>
FileETag None
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset Last-Modified
</ifModule>
RewriteEngine on
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>
#SecFilterEngine Off
#SecFilterScanPOST Off
deny from 138.217.44.200
deny from 203.217.29.248
deny from 147.10.7.6
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ozaudi.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ozaudi.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$
http://www.ozaudi.com/forums/index.php [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ozaudi.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ozaudi.com$
RewriteRule ^nuke/?$
http://www.ozaudi.com/forums/index.php [R=301,L]
Most of the top stuff added today to see if it would help.