How to check connectivity of apns port 2195 from my hosting server?

Question

I want to check if Push Notification can be done using a hosting server before purchasing hosting plan.what is the shortest way to check this.Also i have godaddy.com\'s host

Answer 1

Use Curl if telnet command is not available.
curl -v telnet://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195
* Rebuilt URL to: telnet://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195/
*   Trying 17.188.137.190...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com (17.188.137.190) port 2195 (#0)

Press Escape to close the connection
* Closing connection 0