# Can't connect to database

**URL:** <https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-connect-to-database/71776>\
**Category:** Hosting Support\
**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-connect-to-database/71776 "2023-01-30T18:42:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon13657768](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon13657768/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon13657768](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon13657768)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-connect-to-database/71776/1 "2023-01-30T18:42:29Z")

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### Username (e.g. epiz\_XXX) or Website URL

epiz\_33488359

### Error Message

“com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure”  
“The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.”

### Other Information

I want to connect to my Discord bot database but this error always happens. Most things I look up on the internet would help if it was a localhost, but the hosting is on Infinityfree.

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**Author:** ![Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/greenreader9/32/22847_2.png) [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-connect-to-database/71776/2 "2023-01-30T18:50:36Z")

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Welcome!

InfinityFree is a webhosting provider, not a database hosting provider. So you won’t be able to do that here:

> [@Connecting to MySQL from an external application](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/connecting-to-mysql-from-an-external-application/49339):
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> 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…

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**Author:** ![system](https://infinityfree-forum-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/0/b024fd3fa88bae093c9576e55c2c94e33f890206.svg) [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-connect-to-database/71776/3 "2023-02-06T18:50:49Z")

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