Go to the forums on connectuo.com and read there, has all information of how to fix the crash issue with it and it does work.
As to getting your shard public, this will be hard other then word of mouth or posting ip on your forums for shard or website.
As of yet connectuo does not update ip changes nor does uogateway- my shard has been dead due to this for months now, since one day I had ip change (which hardly ever happens) and not having a source to change it .
As to starting point for players, go down to facts and questions, alot of great information there for starting a new shard
