New server rented, whats next?

[djzombie 22]

So I read some of the stickies above, most of them actually. All of the ones that seemed to pertain to setting up a server, but none of them seemed to answer my questions. You guys really need a tutorial about whats involved with setting up a new server.

So here is the story, my buddy rented a server from dayzhosting.com.

After about 3 days of them saying it should be up at this time, and then changing it repeatadly, they finally send him the email saying its up. All they sent him was an IP address and his login info. When you login to server administration under game services there is literally nothing listed. I think that may be the problem, and I don't expect you folks to help with that if it is the problem, instead just confirm my suspicions.

We tried going into arma 2 and going to mp > remote > entering ip and port but the server never showed up.

My real question is how do we get his server(should it ever actually be in working condition) linked inside the launcher, is there an extra step we're missing? We tried the form to request an instance ID, but we didn't have the server specs so we made some stuff up. Is that something that the hosting company would have already done? We're just really frustrated with the whole process and lack of explanation as to what we actually need to do to get this server into a state in which people can connect to it without having to know the ip(hell we can't even do that at this point).

[djzombie 22]

almost to the bottom of the page already with no response, bump

Edited July 28, 2012 by djzombie