<p>I wrote an application that currently runs against a local instance of MySql.  I would like to centralize the DB somewhere on the Net, and share my application.</p>

<p>But, I'm cheap, and don't want to pay for it.  Does anyone know of a free on-line relational DB service that I could connect to via C#?</p>

[{'answer_id': 8903, 'author': 'TheSmurf', 'author_id': 1975282, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1975282', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I've never heard of such a thing. A few years ago, many hosts (Brinkster, etc) offered some minimal database capacity with their free web hosting accounts, but I think you'd find it difficult to find something like that now. Even if you could, most hosts no longer allow you to connect to a database (even on an account you're paying for) outside of a web application running on their server.</p>\n\n<p>My advice would be to cobble together an old computer and use that as a database server that you run out of your house (coupled with no-ip or some similar service, probably). If you're going to need more horsepower/bandwidth than that, you'll probably just have to suck it up and pay for something.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 8904, 'author': 'Patrik Svensson', 'author_id': 936, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/936', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Have you taken a look at <a href="http://creator.zoho.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://creator.zoho.com/</a>?<br>\nI haven\'t tested it myself but it might be a good idea to check it out.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8905, 'author': 'Jon Limjap', 'author_id': 372, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/372', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Oops, didn\'t read the question properly that time! :P</p>\n\n<p>Haven\'t tried this yet, and their site says they had had a major crash recently, but it looks promising: <a href="http://www.freesql.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.freesql.org/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8906, 'author': 'Chris Farmer', 'author_id': 404, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/404', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>What about <a href="http://www.freesql.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.freesql.org</a> ?  Seems like you can\'t be too picky when you\'re asking for free, and this seems to offer something.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8913, 'author': 'James Marshall', 'author_id': 1025, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1025', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Sounds like you need <a href="http://www.amazon.com/SimpleDB-AWS-Service-Pricing/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=342335011" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amazon SimpleDB</a>...</p>\n\n<p>It\'s not free, but pricing looks pretty good. I\'ve not used it myself, but when I\'ve got a bit of spare time I might use it for a project I\'m working on.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2873983, 'author': 'Kjetil Myhre', 'author_id': 346130, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/346130', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Well, there is <a href="http://zymic.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://zymic.com/</a>. They provide free hosting, which includes free databases. Not sure if you can connect to it from outside. You\'ll have to check that out.</p>\n'}]
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