MySQL Server not accepting connections

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You cannot connect to MySQL from an external application on our hosting.

Connecting to MySQL from an external application

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…

Additionally, our servers are set up to not respond to pings for security purposes and so we can keep the servers fast for their appropriate functions.

I can't ping my website! Is the server down?

If you try to ping your website, or any free hosting related server or IP address, you will most likely see the ping fail with 100% packet loss. On Windows, the output will look something like this: > ping example.com Pinging example.com [185.27.134.??] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 185.27.134.??: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Does this mean the server is down? No, failing t…

Also, if you try to ping any of the sql servers from your home machine, it will either fail or it will respond with a device from your local network, as 192.168.0.x is a local address.