Transip.nl, a Dutch hosting provider. Not sure what its default settings are, but it’s very customizable so I’ll have a look. Although I reckon I have full access to pretty much everything on it.
Did some searching:
Some plugins require the /wp-content/ folder be made writeable, but in such cases they will let you know during installation. In some cases, this may require assigning 755 permissions. The same is true for /wp-content/cache/ and maybe /wp-content/uploads/ (if you’re using MultiSite you may also need to do this for /wp-content/blogs.dir/)
Is that the case here, and would 755 do the trick?