100% - couldn’t agree with you more.

First of all I have to drop a sanity check on you: do you NEED to buy a dedicated server to host one low traffic website?!?! Don’t waste your money on dedicated hardware if you have no use for it, the world doesn’t need the additional future e-waste as it is.

Secondly to actually answer your question - all things being equal, if storage size doesn’t matter to you (lucky), then go for the faster storage. Just keep in mind that you will more than likely be running RAID 1 aka mirroring. So you will end up with only the capacity of 1 of the drives as your total available storage pool.

Good luck. (You don’t need a server for a single website, don’t be foolish)

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.