Ohh. You’re on that free server. I thought you had meant the big boy - 24gb memory, 4core ARM cpu free server. Yea I’ve never had a problem getting the little one deployed, probably could ignore my suggestion in this case.

Just as fyi however, tutorial may have Debian in the title, but it’s on using NetBoot.xyz which can be used to install any one of dozens of distro that they maintain and offer for net installation.

Do not delete the instance, being that it’s the free tier, you could be waiting weeks or months for another one to be made available for you. If you do end up needing to reinstall the OS, do it “in-place” on your current instance.

There are a handful of ways you could accomplish this, this one being my favorite and the one I always go to.

Wait you think that 35mbps upload is high? No sir, you couldn’t be more wrong.

I would literally give up half of my download speed just to have an upload speed that was over 100mbps at home.