HI!
It's good to meet you!
And the reason you can't connect to the front server is because they are out of bandwidth. it's like internet, use to much and it gets cut off or you have to pay extra for every little bit you use.
Hopefully it will be good again, because I'm the same, never played before. But at least there is map maker and all that to play around with while we wait.
Good luck on here!