Unmanaged VDS SQL Issue

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Unmanaged VDS SQL Issue

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So I moved our domain to an unmanaged VDS and set the webhosting on that, set up mySQL and everything. Everything was falling into place until I got this error when trying to start any game server (not on the VDS):

Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111

And I changed the bind-address in the mySQL conf and now I get this error:

Can't connect to MySQL server on 'globalstrafe.com' (114)

Globalstrafe.com being our domain.
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Re: Unmanaged VDS SQL Issue

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It looks like you're pointing globalstrafe.com at CloudFlare, so it is using their IP addresses. You will need to have your MySQL client either connect to your VDS IP directly or use a different subdomain/domain that resolves to your VDS IP.

On our own webhosting, we recommend against using CloudFlare for security, performance, DDoS mitigation, and other reasons.
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