Having issues connecting

[serenity2017]

I'm not sure how to properly flush privileges. I'm using HediSQL. I opened HediSQL and done FLUSH PRIVILEGES; if I needed to follow granting all privileges with the flush then I done it incorrectly. I tried to connect after doing the flushing of privileges after reading the reply, but that didn't seem to help. But maybe I done it incorrectly. I'm still learning

this is what I am using to create my user account:
CREATE USER 'eocdev'@'eoc.akkadius.com' IDENTIFIED BY '********';

GRANT GRANT OPTION ON *.* TO 'eocdev'@'eoc.akkadius.com';

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'eocdev'@'eoc.akkadius.com';

Should I be using the suggest IP 142.44.176.142 instead of eoc.akkadius.com?

On the connection page http://eoc.akkadius.com/EOC2/login.php

I do my server IP address
database name: peq
username: eocdev
password: *******

Thanks for the help, I was working on spells and then lost connection *sigh*