I too have been plagued by IXWebhosting. I’ve been hacked twice now and they aren’t helping one bit. They recently emailed me this on 12/16
We are happy to inform you that we are about to upgrade PHP to the latest version (4.4.9) on the webserver your website is currently being hosted on. This upgrade helps resolve many security exploits which were brought to our attention. With this upgrade we migrate from an Apache Module to a CGI based installation that gives you more control over many PHP settings. At this time you may now upload your very own php.ini file into your cgi-bin folder.
However, I’m still getting the same error as this topic.