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hi jason

On Wed, June 4, 2008 2:32 pm, Jason Nevin wrote:
> 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.  

welcome to newnet.

ask them to allow access from a fixed ip which they can add to their
firewall rules. if not move, theres plenty of webhosts better than newnet
about for the same money.

HTH

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