1. go to Control Panel (http://74.53.149.81:2082/frontend/rvblue/index.html on canarypromotion.com)
2. click ' Manage Remote MySQL Access' button
3. add your ip address to the form
4. change your connection string to point to the remote db server
in Drupal: $db_url = 'mysql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER_URL/DB_NAME';