With Uberspace you can determine the PHP version to use in a config file. You also run your own PHP interpreter, means you can use your own php.ini etc.
I fully agree with you on the scalability of the customer service though.
I fully agree with you on the scalability of the customer service though.
The actual problem is more complex: you always have the conflict between wanting users to use the latest version (because of security issues or stuff like that) and not breaking the software they're running.
Anyway, i fully agree: providing hosting is a hard business. Imaging what 1and1 needs to do for this huge server farm... wow. It's ok for a lot of low traffic sites without much functionality, but in my case I needed more at one point. Now I have the choice between 5.3 and 5.4. Thats neat.