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Yeah this is a completely valid security provision that any decent hosting
company should have in place.

Fasthosts is one of the only ones I know that doesn't restrict this. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Nevin [mailto:jason_nevin at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 04 June 2008 14:33
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: [_] Accessing hosted MySQL databases

I have a hosted site and I want to be able to access my hosed database from
a desktop application. I'm informed by the hosting company (newnet),
however, that they firewall off ANY external access to their databases. I.e
I can only access the data through an application running on their server
(i.e PHPAdmin or my own web app). Is this normal? I've used several hosting
companies in the past and this is the first time that I've come accross this
problem.  
Jason.

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