[Plugin: All] cannot update or install plugins

Hello

I seem to be having a problem installing or updating plugins. Maybe someone has an idea as to where the problem could be?

When I install or update it says that it is doing it but it never seems to finish. A temp file is created in my wp-content folder. I thought that it could just be it takes a long time (afterall it does have a msg saying be patient). Last night I started to update Askimet and it was still not complete 9 hours later! That seems way to long for me.

Is there someone I can ask my hosting company to tweak? I’m with 1and1.

For now I can just download and install via ftp so I’m not completely blocked but it’d be nice to get it running via the admin panel.

Thanks for any ideas.

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