So i have made my own game named sekai mania, but the important thing that i want to use is login a leaderboard system. I have been used my localhost, and when i seen infinityfree is using php and mysql, i suddenly thinking, can i use infinityfree as the database system.
Nb: database only store user, pass, and profile picture
Hi and welcome to the forum! You can’t use free hosting for your game’s database, as MySQL remote access is not available.
Sometimes, you may want to connect to your MySQL database on your free hosting account using external software, like a desktop database manager (like MySQL Workbench) or an external program you wrote yourself (like an Android or iOS app).
You cannot connect to a free hosting MySQL database from outside your hosting account.
You can only interact with your free hosting database through PHP scripts uploaded to your free hosting account, or through our phpMyAdmin installation.
The ability to con…
And even if you use PHP to connect to your game’s database, the request will be blocked by our security system, which is explained here:
InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools.
To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br…
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