I have seen the other posts on this, and I've confirmed it's not the usual SSH bug. I've compared the sshd_config as well as the ssh startup script with a VM that is running perfectly fine - the files are identical.
I've confirmed that I have my endpoint configured properly, and yet I still get "connection refused" when I try to SSH into it.
Also, there was a web server running on the machine that doesn't start up now either.
Is there no alternate way to connect into the machine to see what is going on so I can fix it?