{"id":3984,"date":"2025-09-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/common-server-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:01:00","slug":"common-server-ports","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/common-server-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Server Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Server ports are used by different services to accept connections. These are some of the common ports you may see when setting up email, websites, FTP or server access.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>21<\/code>: FTP<\/li>\n<li><code>22<\/code>: SSH<\/li>\n<li><code>25<\/code>: SMTP<\/li>\n<li><code>53<\/code>: DNS<\/li>\n<li><code>80<\/code>: HTTP<\/li>\n<li><code>110<\/code>: POP3<\/li>\n<li><code>143<\/code>: IMAP<\/li>\n<li><code>443<\/code>: HTTPS<\/li>\n<li><code>465<\/code>: Secure SMTP<\/li>\n<li><code>587<\/code>: SMTP submission<\/li>\n<li><code>993<\/code>: Secure IMAP<\/li>\n<li><code>995<\/code>: Secure POP3<\/li>\n<li><code>2082<\/code>: cPanel<\/li>\n<li><code>2083<\/code>: cPanel over SSL<\/li>\n<li><code>2086<\/code>: WHM<\/li>\n<li><code>2087<\/code>: WHM over SSL<\/li>\n<li><code>2095<\/code>: Webmail<\/li>\n<li><code>2096<\/code>: Webmail over SSL<\/li>\n<li><code>3306<\/code>: MySQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You should only open ports that are actually needed. Leaving unnecessary services exposed can create security risks.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using shared hosting, you normally do not need to manage server ports yourself. If you are using a managed cloud server and need a port reviewed, contact support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Server ports are used by different services to accept connections. These are some of the common ports you may see when setting up email,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-3984","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3984\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}