Glitch's dynamic IP addresses don't work with Bluehost

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I’m connecting to a MySQL server on Bluehost, and Bluehost requires that I whitelist any IP address that connects. I know about the typing curl ifconfig.co in the terminal, but my IP is changing a lot so it’s getting in my way a lot.

Is there any way around this? Thanks!

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Hi @ienjoy!

I don’t know much about Bluehost, but I know you have to whitelist IPs on MongoDB, and the IP 0.0.0.0/0 actually whitelists all IPs.

Hope this helps:)

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MySQL instances on glitch are not available on the internet. Sorry about that!

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Thanks! But I’m asking the reverse question: I have a MySQL DB publicly available on the internet, and I’m using Glitch to talk to it. But because Glitch is using a dynamic address, I can’t whitelist it with my client.

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There’s no way around the dynamic IP addresses of Glitch projects, they are foundational to how the platform works. Everytime your project starts it starts on a different Glitch host machine (which is actually an AWS EC2 instance) which means it’s running from a different IP address.

I’d wager that Glitch is always serving projects from the same block of IP addresses so maybe you can do some trial and error to determine what that block is and whitelist the whole block.

Alternatively you could experiment with boosted apps on Glitch. Because they are always awake I’d imagine they don’t move from host to host all that frequently so they may maintain an IP address for a longer period of time.

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