You're at the forum run by
JBMC Software, the publishers of DirectAdmin software.
DirectAdmin is webhost administration software, allowing companies large and small to sell webhosting. Hostbandit is likely one of those companies using DirectAdmin to sell webhosting. I say likely because their main site appears to not be hosted under DirectAdmin, while at least some of their users (listed on their website) are.
You're at the DirectAdmin forums; a self-help support group for admins and others who host their sites using DirectAdmin software.
If they've linked to this support forum for support, then they may have offloaded their support load to those of us who volunteer on these forums, even though most of us are competing webhosting companies (and I'd bet most of us at higher prices as well). I suppose that may be one way of cutting costs. After all you've got to cut costs somewhere when you're selling webhosting for $1.00/month.
But we can't help you with more than the general information; the same kind you can find on DirectAdmin support pages,
here, simply because DirectAdmin is a very configurable system and we may all configure our systems differently.
You haven't responded as to what kind of account you have with them, but it's unlikely you can do, for example, what chatwizrd suggests in post #6 above, since to do that you'd have to have full administrative control of your entire server.
And chatwizrd is right about safe_mode, it's been deprecated, the authors and maintainers of PHP have decided it's not really safe in today's webhosting environment in shared hosting environments, and will no longer even support it in future versions of PHP.
If there's no real support at hostandit, and they cannot turn off safe_mode for you, then you'll probably need to host elsewhere.
Under the terms of service of these forums none of us are allowed to offer hosting on the forum, but there is a section of the forum where you can post your needs, and members here may contact you by private message if they can offer you what you need.
Don't expect unlimited hosting, though. And don't expect a dollar a month. In the opinion of most of us, those aren't viable options.
Please also see my PM to you.
Jeff
