i cant join my friends server while its offline

[TaintedRain22]

im trying to join my friends server while its offline. i did /join (name) while in the lobby and it says waiting for server to start at the bottom of my screen but i've been sitting in the lobby for over a half hour. i've got the right version of minecraft and the only additions i have are optifine and some resource packs. is there a reason why it won't start or is it like aternos and i'm in a queue? this is my first time using minehut, so any help would be great.

[swirs]

Hey there @TaintedRain22, I suggest that you start up your server in the server console as it might work a bit better and you will see when the server is online. 

To answer your question about the queue thing, Minehut does not have a queue.