happy to help, we can hook-up a discord chat :)

I also found these links useful, you may have already ready them, but this is the distillation of all more reading down to the most up to date and information posts on set-up

Witness
https://que.com/howto-setup-witness-node-by-yehey/
https://github.com/Netherdrake/conductor
https://github.com/MattyIce/pricefeed
https://steemit.com/steem/@someguy123/your-guide-to-setting-up-a-witness-server-steem-in-a-box-hf19
https://steemit.com/steem/@furion/introducing-conductor-a-simple-steem-witness-toolkit
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@krnel/complete-witness-installation-guide
https://steemit.com/witness/@brandonfrye/2018-beginner-s-guide-to-setting-up-a-steem-witness-and-seed-node
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@drakos/running-a-witness-node-v0-19-4
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@reggaemuffin/witness-reggaemuffin
https://steemit.com/help/@reggaemuffin/complete-guide-to-what-is-steem-it