# Upload data to mySql database **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosting Support\ **Created:** [April 20, 2024, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/upload-data-to-mysql-database/92565 "2024-04-20T09:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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> [@anon83006501](#): > > I want to send sensor data with my microcontroller to my created mySql database. > [@anon83006501](#): > > there is no error message. seems that its connecting but in the my sql database never arrives. That is by design. Please understand that we provide hosting for _websites_, i.e. things that produce pages that are viewed in web browsers. To help enforce this, we have this security system: > [@Ensuring only web browsers can access your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ensuring-only-web-browsers-can-access-your-website/49353): > > 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… Our hosting is not intended for IoT data collection services, and you’ll have a very hard time if you try to use our hosting for it. Personally, I would go with a small, cheap, low power home server, like a Raspberry Pi, to handle the data collection. If only for the privacy benefit of the data not leaving my own network. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/upload-data-to-mysql-database/92565)._