: MySQL Online Database Can anyone suggest a good online free MySQL database. I've tried four till now: db4free FreeMySQL onPhP 000webhost Either of them gave me an timeout error on my connect

@Miguel251

@marian The first question I would ask is: what is your use case?

If you are just wanting to fire up a MySQL instance to test every now and then, you can fire up a local one on your laptop/desktop. Either bare metal or in a small virtual machine.

I'll address other "always online" solutions:

Serving From Home

This can work. However, you have to realize that you are opening yourself up to being hacked/attacked. This could also be a violation of your ISP's TOS/EULA.

A safe way of implementing this is having an intermediate trusted host that you can establish a tunnel to, from the box at home.

Ie, something like:

ssh -R3306:localhost:3306 tunnel-user@trusted-host.domain.com keep-alive-script


Then, from the trusted host, you can connect to the host via:

mysql -u USERNAME -p -h localhost


And be able to connect to the box from the trusted host. This allows you to host from home without the risk of having any public facing open ports at home.

Serving From a Generous Friend's Box

If serving from home doesn't work, or you need a bit more reliability, find a good friend who also has hosting capacity and beg/borrow some space/cycles to implement your mysql instance.

Spend Some Money

Depending on your MySQL needs, you can get a small instance from various online VPS hosting providers. However, it won't be free. It CAN be cheap. To the tune of maybe /month if you go with an annual plan. See prgmr.com/xen/
Go With Amazon RDS

They have some free tier offers. Haven't tried them, but definitely an option. If get charged only after you exceed the transaction limits/cap, then you effectively have it for free.

I would avoid the free MySQL services out there. You lose too much control and depending on the data you will be hosting on the instance, poses a risk to your sensitive data.

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@Fox8124981

Here is several free relational database service.
aws.amazon.com/free/
"To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a free usage tier. The free tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS.
"

But the service i've register is xeround.com which give you free 10 mb of db storage.

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@Si4351233

If you need MySQL Database provider
Have a look at database as a service providers


xeround.com/
cloudant.com/

or you can use the amazon RDS Free

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@Margaret670

I recommend you to try hostzil.la


They provide :



Free CLOUD hosting
Upto 100 mb diskspace
UNLIMITED bandwidth,database, etc.
Low downtime.
High speed servers.



I Recommend you to try it. They are new but i host there for months and i dont have any sort of problems.
My website loads faster(max load time:734ms) . You can find your website load time @ tools.pingdom.com


Regards Venkat,
Happy hosting.


And Running Own server cause many problems(your computer cannot take the traffic) as hosting companies will have equiments loaded to hold high traffic and also you require high speed internet connection(special plans provided by your isp).

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