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Every tutorial I see on the internet on how to connect to remote sql server using management studio will say I enter ip-adress\sqlexpress for the server name. When I do that i get the most famous nework-related/instance-specific error, but when I enter only the ip-adress everything goes smoothly. is this normal? is this fine?
When installing SQL Server, you gave the instance a name (as you have mentions in your comments).
Since it is a named instance, and probably the only SQL Server on the machine, it is also the default instance (which is why just an IP works).
Since you gave the instance a name, it is not called
sqlexpress(unless you chose that name, and from the error, I am assuming you did not) – which is why you get errors using that name.