I was able to connect to the VPS. To facilitate finding nodes I set up a FireFly Coin DNS node Tracker/Seeder at
dnsseed.fireflycoin.ccIt can be queried in real-time by re-loading the above web page, or by putting the reference to it in the source code, (line 69 of 'chainparams.cpp') :
vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("fireflycoin.cc", "dnsseed.fireflycoin.cc"));