Connect remotely to mysql here?

[blakekr]

Can you do it? Do you need to use port 3306 or anything particular?

Thanks!

[AndrewT]

Direct connections to MySQL remotely are blocked. This can be accomplished through SSH tunneling, right now we just look the other way on that for those using it to access it via home or something along those lines. But under no circumstances should it be used to serve data to a site remotely.

[blakekr]

In this case it would be a remote site spider/scraper service that wants to write the results to my database -- ??

[AndrewT]

In this case it would be a remote site spider/scraper service that wants to write the results to my database -- ??

That's not something that we would allow, sorry.

[blakekr]

Thanks Andrew. Appreciate the info.