title: Whats my hostname on my local MySQL server?
body: <p>I just set up a MySQL server on my PC for testing Java with JDBC.
  At the moment "localhost" works perfectly as hostname for my applications, when running them on the same system. </p>
  
  <p>However what would be the hostname for my MySQL server for applications that are running on different computers? Something like "my_ip:port" would work? I was thinking of writing an applet, which I could upload on a web server and try to connect to my database here. Is it possible to achieve that?</p>