First - you should see your hosting documentation regarding specific access / permissions.
You also did not mentioned what control panel you are using ( whm, cpanel, plesk , virtualmin, custom )
As for runtime :
You can use ini_set
in order to change some of the runtime variables.
It might not be available with your hosting, but you can always try ( most hosting that I have encountered allow it to some degree )
Likewise, you can use ini_get
to see current values, for example to know what is the upload_max_filesize
that is currently used :
echo 'upload_max_filesize = ' . ini_get('upload_max_filesize') . "";
and to set it :
ini_set('upload_max_filesize','1024M');
or with error suppression :
@ini_set('upload_max_filesize',$my_Value);
Depending on your hosting, you could potentially do that with most variables of the ini
file :
ini_set('max_execution_time','10');
ini_set('memory_limit','1024M');
ini_set('post_max_size','1024M');
Another way ( again - hosting permitting ) is to use .htaccess
Syntax is a bit different
php_value upload_max_filesize "80M"
php_value post_max_size "80M"
php_value max_execution_time "2000"
php_value memory_limit "150M"
Under some hosting that permit - you can actually put per-folder user.ini
\ .user.ini
or php.ini
\ .php.ini
with the values you want to override - but again, best is to consult hosting documentation.
If you want to make sure to know where is the used ini
you can also try
<?php echo php_ini_loaded_file(); ?>