3306 – Port exposure

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    rgriggio · Member ·

    Hi,
    I come from the experience with a your important competitor. Following a security audit, we found that their (managed) service involved a public exposure of port 3306 (mysql) for maintenance purposes. At our request to close this port, we received a denial.
    We ended the relationship with them and temporarily switched to an iaas infrastructure.
    If we use your service, do we risk having the same security problems?

    Thank you

    I don’t have a site with WordPress.com yet

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    divyaab · Member ·

    Hi There,

    The forum you have posted is WordPress.com. The websites hosted on WordPress.com doesn’t provide any capability to log in on the server unless you have a WordPress Business plan or higher. The security constraints are already handled by WordPress.com. There is no port exposure here so you don’t have to worry about the same.

    If you wish to use the open source version of WordPress, then it is not the same thing as it self-hosted and you have to check for those aspects with your hosting provider.

    Hope this helps!

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    rgriggio · Member ·

    Thank you! ;-)

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