After multiple exchanges with a tech at the hosting provider, they managed to give the folder the right permissions (I had tried 0777 before but it did not work). I believe some voodoo went on behind the scenes but this is No errors in the error_log; I have set 777 permissions on /home/x/up and the script began working.
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