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You want your website to be as safe as possible. So you'll typically want
Open Basedir and Safe Mode to be on. When you're in a shared hosting
environment, you'll find that any server administrator with a good sense of
security will also have these restrictions in place. However security pretty
much always limits functionality and this case is no different. Because what
if you are caged in a restricted environment, and you would still like to use
shared libraries like the ones provided by PEAR?