After a lot of experimentation, and starting over with different tutorials. I just went from scratch and followed and compiled from github. I would be happy to create a tutorial if anyone would benefit, or help if questions come up, but there are definitely others more qualified right now.
I am running 0.19.4, the synchronization has finished and I am getting transactions.
Though I didn’t end up following any tutorial explicitly, I would like to thank @someguy123 @drakos @gtg and any others I may have forgotten. I sincerely hope that my server will be beneficial to the network for a long time to come.
Also thanks to OVH for what seems to be a very good quality dedicated server, and to 
for my favorite server OS.
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