{"id":2765,"date":"2010-10-25T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:38:39","slug":"i-am-not-able-to-use-telnet-anymore-what-should-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/troubleshooting-website\/i-am-not-able-to-use-telnet-anymore-what-should-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not able to use Telnet anymore, what should I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telnet is a legacy protocol that transmits data, including login credentials, without encryption. For security reasons, Telnet is no longer supported on xneelo servers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recommend using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/enable-ssh-via-the-xneelo-control-panel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SSH on port 2222<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is the preferred secure method to access servers via Shell. If you have been using PuTTy and have your default access set to \u2018Telnet\u2019, please change this to \u2018SSH\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>If you are still having problems logging on, please <a href=\"mailto:support@xneelo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> for further assistance.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false,"plain":"<p><span >Telnet is a legacy protocol that transmits data, including login credentials, without encryption. For security reasons, Telnet is no longer supported on xneelo servers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span >We recommend using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/enable-ssh-via-the-xneelo-control-panel\/\"><span >SSH on port 2222<\/span><\/a><span >, which is the preferred secure method to access servers via Shell. If you have been using PuTTy and have your default access set to \u2018Telnet\u2019, please change this to \u2018SSH\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>If you are still having problems logging on, please <a href=\"mailto:support@xneelo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> for further assistance.<\/p>\r\n<!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph \/-->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend using SSH on port 2222 which is the preferred secure method to access servers via Shell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170,166,188],"tags":[24744,17177,383],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troubleshooting-website","category-website","category-website-security","tag-port-2222","tag-telnet","tag-ssh"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":170,"name":"Troubleshooting Website problems","slug":"troubleshooting-website","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":170,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Solving website problems","parent":166,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"105","cat_ID":170,"category_count":13,"category_description":"Solving website problems","cat_name":"Troubleshooting Website problems","category_nicename":"troubleshooting-website","category_parent":166},{"term_id":166,"name":"Website","slug":"website","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":166,"taxonomy":"category","description":"About your Website(s)","parent":0,"count":173,"filter":"raw","term_order":"120","cat_ID":166,"category_count":173,"category_description":"About your Website(s)","cat_name":"Website","category_nicename":"website","category_parent":0},{"term_id":188,"name":"Website Security","slug":"website-security","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":188,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Securing your website","parent":168,"count":14,"filter":"raw","term_order":"122","cat_ID":188,"category_count":14,"category_description":"Securing your website","cat_name":"Website Security","category_nicename":"website-security","category_parent":168}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":24744,"name":"port 2222","slug":"port-2222","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24744,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3"},{"term_id":17177,"name":"telnet","slug":"telnet","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17177,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2490"},{"term_id":383,"name":"ssh","slug":"ssh","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":383,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2761"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}