Thank you for your good work sir. Instead of manually scanning the files I can finally set it to auto-scan at a nice interval. Take my beans! One cosmetic issue, PHP is yelling in console about the date function: Would it be easy to make this go away?
Three full restarts later and my server is blank (no tents or vehicles). I suspect there is a Hive issue with mine, not sure if anyone else is having this problem.
It is possible the host did not upgrade to the latest Hive file version/beta/dayz patch to fix the inventory saving. You should get in touch with them to make sure they are running the latest Hive and DayZ / Arma 2 beta versions.