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Can't ssh to my VPS

Using CentOS 7.2 x64 On Oct 31, my friend called me saying “Something happened to DigitalOcean, I had to restart my server and your teamspeak isn’t up.” I get home and check on my VPS. It shows that it’s running, try connecting to my teamspeak and my website, both down. I try connecting through PuTTY, I get a “Network error: Connection timed out”. I can only connect through the browser terminal on DO. I did a ssh server connectivity test on port 22 and it says that it can’t connect. Everything was fine before this. I’m not sure what to do.


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Did you tried to ping something from Web Console so you verify that it have network connectivity?

You can try server reboot if you didn’t already:

  1. sudo reboot

Do you remember changing any settings, like enabling firewall or something other? For example, to verify ufw firewall status:

  1. sudo ufw status

If it’s enabled, you should see list of apps and make sure SSH and TeamSpeak (or their ports) are there

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