I try to ssh a remote server from a cPanel Terminal. The hosting provider company that provides the cPanel claims that they don’t restrict ssh connections from their hosts to remote servers. I connect successfully to that remote server from my personal computer executing exactly the same command, but fails to connect from the cPanel Terminal. This is the command and the result that I get:

user@iris [~]# ssh -vvv admin@***.***.***.131
OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 58: Applying options for *
debug2: resolving "***.***.***.131" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to ***.***.***.131 [***.***.***.131] port 22.
debug1: connect to address ***.***.***.131 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host ***.***.***.131 port 22: Connection refused

My personal computer is not part of the remote server‘s network. The ssh client throws the error without even asking me for the remote server‘s password.

I need to ssh the remote server because I want to scheduler with cron periodical transfer of files.

Do you have any idea what might be the problem that is blocking the tries for ssh connection? Any help will be appreciated.