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SSH stands forSecure Shell and is a communication protocol for connecting to remote computersover TCP/IP.

Thisarticle will be written with the assumption that the reader is using MicrosoftWindows, but the principles presented will be applicable to Linux users. In this article I will demonstrate how to connect the MySQL GUI tool – Navicat, to a remote server using SSH port forwarding. However, with the increasing demand from users to connect from remote MySQLclients, some web hosting companies provides SSH Connection which allows userto login remotely across the Internet and support connection through thesoftware based clients. These web-based clients are usually not visually appealing withannoying page refreshes. As a consequence, users are required touse web-based client to access their MySQL Server provided by the hostingcompanies. Many of the webhosting companies has blocked port 3306 to prevent access from outside, todefend against from security threats.