A step-by-step guide for the n00b would be really helpful, since some of this is fairly obscure for the beginner.
Ask me nicely and I might even write one myself  

Edit: for example, I get myself a VPS but... what spec does it need to be? What should the port number be? And when I actually activate the Tron, it takes several goes and takes a while to register in the client - is there a way to check it's going? These are a few things I had to ask around and figure out, and it would have been pretty tough on my own trying to do all this from scratch.