port 443 or in other words https is timing out with no trace of what the problem may be.

Checking the default conf files:

One error found when comparing httpd.conf and ssl.conf is that mod_ssl.so (the ssl_module) was being loaded twice. Throwing an error every time I restart httpd.

After hours of research the answer is a couple simple lines of code to update the iptables... first check iptables --list to see where you need to add the exceptions, in this case VZ_INPUT and VZ_OUTPUT.

Then run:

service iptables save

Now https will work and when you restart the server via plesk or virtuozzo your iptables will stay intact.