So, no surprise to anyone, but #DigitalOcean’s #Sammy#AI assistant gives incorrect information about their services.
It told me that it’s possible to move a volume to a different region by first creating a snapshot of the volume and then creating it as a new volume in the other region. This is apparently incorrect. No big loss for me, but I can’t imagine trusting that service with any other data/storage-related questions.
Lessons learned so far from this round of instance shenanigans...
The storage on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (on x64 instances) is pretty terrible.
Hetzner has really great inbound network speed, but horrid outbound. I tested both in Helsinki and Hillsboro. When I sent files to my instances, it would be mega fast. When I tried to download files from my instances it would be 200-300Kbps. I have symmetric 1Gbps fiber, downloading a Debian ISO from debian.org ran at megabytes per second speeds.
Digital Ocean is expensive compared to the above two, but it's fast, real fast.