Connect to your MySQL database

Applications on your hosting account connect with `localhost` — the database runs on the same node, so no network hop is involved and no firewall rule is needed. For a connection from your own machine, add your IP under Remote MySQL first. Access is IP-restricted by default because an open MySQL port is scanned within minutes of being exposed. Credentials are shown once when the database is created. If you lose them, reset the password rather than creating a second user — orphaned users accumulate and are a common source of failed backups.