Connecting to mySQL database, timeout error

Question

I am having problems connecting to my database, here is the connection class
public class DBConnect
    public static Connection getDBConnect() throws Exception
        String x = "worked";
        //String url = "jdbc:mysql://mysql8.secureserver.net";
        String url = "jdbc:mysql://mysql13.secureserver.net/DBName?user=User&password=Password";
        System.out.println("Before driver load");
        try
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            System.out.println("Driver Loaded");
        catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e)
            System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        System.out.println("After driver loaded and Before connect");
            Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url);
            System.out.println("Tried connect");
            return con;       
}here is the error:
INFO: Server startup in 17685 ms
com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception:
** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **
java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
STACKTRACE:
java.net.SocketException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
     at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:151)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:280)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1765).....

Answer 1

4. The username and password are incorrect, and it's
hanging waiting for you to enter new ones. (I've had
this happen before with Oracle).Sir,
A good point but MySQL will just bomb out in this case.
Another possibility is do you have the latest JConnect driver? The old drivers have protocol issues talking with the newest versioned servers.. but the new drivers are backwards compatible.
Sincerely,
Slappy