{"id":7090,"date":"2025-12-18T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:35:36","slug":"how-to-set-up-remote-mysql-access-on-agency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-set-up-remote-mysql-access-on-agency-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up remote MySQL access on Agency hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><b>Remote MySQL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> feature access allows remote hosts (servers) to manage your databases. To set it up, first, you need to allow the desired remote IP to connect to your database. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This can be done <\/span>by accessing <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>&rarr; <b>Dashboard, <\/b>searching for <b>Management <\/b>under <strong>Database<\/strong> on the left sidebar, and clicking on it:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7091 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_10-58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_10-58.png 510w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_10-58-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There you can select to add a new MySQL user:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1868\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database.png 1868w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database-1024x340.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database-768x255.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/database-1536x510.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And there you will be able to fill in the needed information:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Database username<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Database password<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IP (IPv4 or IPv6) &ndash; the IP address from which the remote connection will be initiated<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any host &ndash; click this checkbox to allow the connection from any IP. This will add a % symbol in the IP field<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8203;&#8203;When all is good to go, click on &ldquo;Add remote user&rdquo;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7094 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_11-13-1024x779.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_11-13-1024x779.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_11-13-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_11-13-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18_11-13.png 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the remote access is created, you will be able to manage it:<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7967 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/remote-db.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/remote-db.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/remote-db-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/remote-db-768x669.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>That&rsquo;s it! Now you know how to set up and manage remote access to your databases on Agency plan &#128522;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Remote MySQL feature access allows remote hosts (servers) to manage your databases. To set it up, first, you need to allow the desired remote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency-hosting-plans"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-set-up-remote-mysql-access-on-agency-plan","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}