Arma 3 Epoch Server

[Hazmat]

Hello,

We're attempting to run A3 Epoch on one, possibly two of our servers and we're hitting a dead end. It's on a managed vds, have uploaded all the required files...checked and double checked configurations. Server will populate in the A3 multiplayer browser, we can connect, get to lobby and starts to load...but doesn't get past "Server Initializing...please wait!" message.

I think it's the redis not being initialized on the server side...but don't see any error messages being thrown. Tried binding epochserver.ini to an external IP for the server to connect to Redis running on an external box, but do not see any successful connections...required ports opened.

Is there any way to initialize Redis or hopefully add configuration in the control panel to get it running properly upon server start?

I'd transition to unmanaged, but we have a few other game servers running and it'd disrupt all of them if we made the change. Looks like some of the other providers have added functionality to their VDS's that will fire up Redis when their servers are started.

Thanks in advance for the help.