Relational Database

You do need to be aware that the MySQL network layer appears to be extremely sensitive to what the host is called. It needs to have a permanent, static name which is correctly mapped in the hosts or DNS so that hostname maps to ip address and the ip address maps back to THE SAME hostname. If this isn't the case, the final part of the installation - creating the database schemas and populating them - may well not work.

On a web site hosting provider, you will need to work through whatever access configuration facilities they provide. The common cpanel administrative interface used by many provides a way to configure remote MySQL access although if you have SSH access, this may not be strictly necessary.

Other database engines may not be so sensitive to the IP address issues - Oracle 10 and 11 versions are not (by default anyway). We do not currently support any other databases beyond MySQL 5.x and Oracle 10i/11i but we are expecting to add support for PostgreSQL in a future release.