So I'm giving up searching for solution and simply ask. Quite sure it's an very easy fix but and I'm new to admin a server

Basically - I cannot connect localhost / 127.0.0.1 via SSH

ping localhost

PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=1 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=2 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=3 ttl=64 time=0.086 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=4 ttl=64 time=0.090 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=5 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmpseq=6 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
^C
--- localhost ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 4998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.046/0.086/0.140/0.030 ms

traceroute localhost

traceroute to localhost (127.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
...
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *

ssh -vvv localhost

OpenSSH6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/sshconfig
debug1: /etc/ssh/sshconfig line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: sshconnect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection timed out

So where do I start the search for the solution?