Well then, this reply from that WiserHosting company should be a good indication:
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Thank you for your interest in WiserHosting.com.

To answer your queries:

1)We will allow SSH at agreed times, and we would need to be informed of the
purpose of your SSH access.

2) PHP is currently not runnig in safe mode, however we are aware of certain
security drawbacks with this, and if we detect any abuse by any local PHP
scripts or other external PHP access atempts, we will probably revert to
safe mode.

If you have any further queries do not hesitate to contact us again.

Regards
Colin Taylor
[email protected]
http://www.wiserhosting.com