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.
While you are of course correct, the free offerings from ngrok are limited to 1GB/m transfer, not sure if that’s feasible to run a mc server with, so I didn’t assume that OP was the free plan. (Although admittedly, he likely is)
Trouble is that much of that awesome list is reliant on having resources that you can self host and egress point on. Which doesn’t seem all that likely either. This really wasn’t the right sub to ask his question in. 😅
But since he did, the I’d probably suggest that OP drops ngrok completely in favor of something like playit.gg which has dedicated hostname (and a bunch of other useful stuff) built right with every tunnel.
Ngrok offers fixed address. Just set one up and give that out for people to connect to instead of temporary IPs.
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.