# Cloning a website to another host using a custom SSH port fails

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**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/1029-cloning-a-website-to-another-host-using-a-custom-ssh-port-fails

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Hi, 

Im getting this when trying to clone a site.

ssh: connect to host 12.34.56.78 port 22: Connection timed out
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(231) [sender=3.2.7]

It should be using a custom port 22013 (in our case).

same is true when cloning a database:

updating: wp_database_abc.sql (deflated 92%)
ssh: connect to host 12.34.56.78 port 22: Connection timed out
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(231) [sender=3.2.7]

unzip:  cannot find or open wp_database_abc.sql.zip, wp_database_abc.sql.zip.zip or wp_database_abc.sql.zip.ZIP.