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KVM VPS: Connection closed by
If you can ping your server but receive a "Connection closed by [VPS IP]" when trying to establish an SSH connection, connect to your VPS through VNC and check your /var/log/auth.log for the following error:
error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
If this is the case, this can be fixed easily by running the following commands:
ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
After you ran the commands, please reboot the server.
