Found the error: As I had just switched from Johnny, I had to reconfigure the SFTP settings, in the Cpanel the following are to be found: SFTP host: tommy.heliohost.org SFTP port: 1373 SFTP protocol: SFTP SFTP logon type: Normal Which is Johnny's port, therefore the timeout. Google and some coffee helped me finding the correct one,1342. With this, the connection via sftp works perfectly. Had not tried ftps this night, there the data given in the cpanel would have been correct, ftps connects as well. Regards