I'm using terminator and would like it to start up pre-configured with remote connections established, I do achieve this by setting ssh user@host in the command = field in ~/.config/terminator/config for my respective terminator child. Now, as soon as I reboot that rtemote host, my terminator child closes down which is not optimal;, I would like it to just terminate the connection but not close the whole window. How can I get around this? I haven'yt tried it yet but something like ssh localhost ssh user@host might work? Does anyone have experience with this? 
remote connection config in terminator
ssh;configuration;remote;gnome terminator