<databaseManager active="true">
    <connectionString>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db_name</connectionString>
    <userName>root</userName>
    <password></password>
    <testSql>SELECT id FROM users LIMIT 1</testSql>
  </databaseManager>

<connectionString>jdbc:mysql://mysql2.000webhost.com/a5939459_data</connectionString>
<userName>a5939459_user</userName>
<password>censored</password>
<testSql>SELECT id FROM users LIMIT 1</testSql>

Exception: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException
Message: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driv
er has not received any packets from the server.
Description: The DBManager Test SQL failed
Please double check your SQL code and make sure that Database server is running.

<?php
$db_username = "a5939459_user";
$db_name = "a5939459_data";
$db_password = "censored";
$db_host = "mysql2.000webhost.com";
mysql_connect($db_host,$db_username, $db_password, $db_name);
mysql_select_db($db_name) or die (mysql_error());
?>

mysql2.000webhost.com.  14189   IN      A       10.1.1.102