[eluser]freakish777[/eluser]
DreamHost does in fact set up a database at "myDBname.mywebsite.com" where you can use their Query/Command Line only UI to access it. However in their wiki they say to use "localhost" as the hostname (presumably because your configuration and library files will be in a directory on the site itself). I did try it with $db[‘default’][‘hostname’] = "myDBname.mywebsite.com" and it didn't work, however I may have had something else wrong at that time, I'll try it that way again in case.
EDIT: Works, thanks. I apparently got confused because their wiki says to use "localhost" when using a third party tool to connect to the database (meaning mySQL 5 or some other database software, it was somewhat late when I was doing this last night and talking with the friend who I'm helping).
