Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, no form of those work. It just hangs. No error message even though I have set: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

I tried with both a semi-colon and colon between the database name and host name but no joy. Just to be sure, Data Dumper showed:

'DBI:mysql:highgatevps_kcmach;vdb2b.pair.com'
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I'll reach out to Pair and see if their logs show the issue (nothing in the logs they provide for users).