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An SSH tunnel is like a VPN right? Do hosting companies normally setup such things with their clients?


----- Original Message ----
From: James Fidell <james at cloud9.co.uk>
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 6:02:18 PM
Subject: Re: [_] Accessing hosted MySQL databases

Matt Kane wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2008, at 14:32, 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.
> 
> 
> Shouldn't you be using an ssh tunnel anyway?

Definitely the way I'd do it.  I don't even usually configure mysql to
listen on an external port unless I want replication or something like
that.

James

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