this likely means your microsoft account got hacked by the person who ratted you, you'll have to either contact microsoft support or mojang support for this, id suggest trying to find proof of purchasing minecraft as they will likely want that to know its actually you who owns the account
before doing that do check if you have access to the email associated with your microsoft account, if you do you might be able to recover access using the forgot password page
can you provide any sort of log, information about the server software you're running, what error the minecraft client gives you when you try to connect, and what you set the MOTD to?
you can create a scoreboard to track player deaths with /scoreboard objectives add playerDeath deathCount
to do something when a player dies, you will need either a datapack or a repeating command block to run this: /execute as @a[scores={playerDeath=1..}] run [command here]
to respawn a mob after it dies, look at the mob you want to respawn and press F3+I on your keyboard to copy a command to spawn it to your clipboard. Put this command in the [command here] section of the /execute command
IIRC java edition doesn't let you put the § character in chat or commands blocks and such
if you're writing a datapack, the character does get recognized however
if you're wanting to use it in chat, you're going to need a serverside mod or plugin to allow for custom colors in chat
if you're trying to display a message to players using /tellraw, https://www.minecraftjson.com/ is a useful tool for easily customizing tellraw messages
the process hasnt changed besides needing java 17 installed for 1.18 (java 16 or higher for 1.17), the biggest issue always ends up being port forwarding
have you launched the vanilla equivalent of the optifine version you installed yet? for example optifine 1.18.1, launch vanilla 1.18.1 then only after that install optifine 1.18.1
something to note about servers on consoles, bedrock normally does not allow you to add custom IP addresses for servers, but there are workarounds, i've written a guide about it here.
Fedora should be fine for a Bedrock server as long as you're familiar with the command line
unfortunately, PS4's encrypt save data, so the data on the USB wont be helpful
the only official method is to use a realms server to upload a world to it from PS4, and download that world on PC or Mobile on the same account using the realms
