hello my site/server is offline and i can not access it also i can not access it's ssh as i get Connection Refused once i try. but when i ping the IP it's pinging back. i can only access the SSH through rescue mode. please help and advise.
It seems like the SSH daemon is simply not running. I assume rescue mode is a console? If you look in the log files do you see anything about services that failed to start? if you do a ps -ef | grep -i sshd does it show that sshd is running? assuming you are using some flavor of linux/unix...