If you want us to check to see if your server is working, you're going to have to give us the server address.
If this is for an IRC network, you might also think about registering it with
Search IRC , if you haven't already. They have a bot or bots, I believe, that will attempt to join the network, and then relay basic information to the site. Things like Network name,
server address, number of channels, & number of users.
If you've done that, and you have an ad running elsewhere, it might be that there's just not enough people using IRC over the large number of available networks.