# Connection timed out when running SSH connection command

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-timed-out-when-running-ssh-connection-command/311880 "2024-06-13T07:38:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-timed-out-when-running-ssh-connection-command/311880/5 "2024-06-13T08:36:38Z")

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If you are ON your pi, then there is no need to SSH into it. It’s only if/when you are remotely logging into your pi from another machine that you’d need it.

This guide is targeted at VPS installs and you are necessarily remote in the usual circumstance.

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