Allow All Remote Connection to MySql database

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I am a Free user checking Features
how can I allow all remote connection to database, Currently only single host/IP can be added but I want to allow all remote connection
 

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The only connection you can have is "localhost" on Free Hosting. No remote SQL is allowed at all, inbound or outbound.
 

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ok but
will they allow me to open database for all remote connection after Premium Membership ?
 

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As far as I know, you'd be restricted to a handful of whitelisted IPs/users. That's normal for shared hosting. You'd need a VPS or a dedicated server to run wide-open. What are you planning to do that can't be done with an API brokering access for you?
 

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Premium hosting does indeed allow remote connection, I think you can set it to all rather then one IP by using the wildcard setting, which would be setting it to allow "%".

I'll see if I can get that confirmed by someone that actually works with the premium side of things.
 

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As far as I know, you'd be restricted to a handful of whitelisted IPs/users. That's normal for shared hosting. You'd need a VPS or a dedicated server to run wide-open. What are you planning to do that can't be done with an API brokering access for you?

Actually I am Developing Vb.net app for my college So anyone Using that app from anywhere, can be able to Retrieve some / all data from that database
in Short want to Use This as a OPEN Cloud database
 

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Premium hosting does indeed allow remote connection, I think you can set it to all rather then one IP by using the wildcard setting, which would be setting it to allow "%".

I'll see if I can get that confirmed by someone that actually works with the premium side of things.
Yes as free user there is still Option of "% wildcard" But I am not able to use that , if this works I'll surely go for Premium
 

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Actually I am Developing Vb.net app for my college So anyone Using that app from anywhere, can be able to Retrieve some / all data from that database
in Short want to Use This as a OPEN Cloud database

So write it as a web service, maybe? Or a JSON API? VB.NET and C# would be happy with either. It would be a lot more portable that way, too — that is, you wouldn't be dependent on a single hosting provider or account as long as you control the URL, so moving from free to premium or VPS or to another hosting provider would just be a minor glitch while DNS updates, not a code/config rewrite/redeploy. Again, with Free Hosting your databases are only accessible as "localhost"; Free Hosting isn't designed to be a "trial version" of Premium. And you need to have a web site, not just a data provider; that's part of the terms of service for Free Hosting (and, as a bonus, you also get a mobile version of the app that way). You can also get row and column-level permissions regardless of the database version/features. HTTP access is just saner in every way.
 
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