This feature allows remote hosts (servers) to connect to your account’s MySQL® databases.
This is useful if you want to allow shopping cart or guestbook applications on other servers to access your databases, for example.

Steps for connecting to a remote Mysql database:

Navigate to the control panel.

Click on Remote Mysql in the Database section

Add client IP address in front of the “Host”

Click on Add host

You will need the following settings in the database connectivity tool. i.e my sqlfront

Database name: Name of the database

database username: username

Database password: Password is given to the above username

MySQL port: Port 3306

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