South African Server

An Oracle Cloud infrastructure project

This project provisions and operates a public Ubuntu server in Oracle Cloud's Johannesburg region. It automates the network, retries instance creation when capacity is unavailable, and serves this project page from nginx over HTTPS. The goal is a small, reproducible home for experiments, services, and infrastructure work.

Flex instance status: SEARCHING The provisioner is retrying until OCI capacity becomes available.
Launch attempts (current run) 76
[2026-09-18 20:30:26] >>> Attempt 71: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 20:32:02] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 20:32:02] >>> Attempt 71: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 20:42:06] >>> Attempt 72: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 20:43:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 20:43:42] >>> Attempt 72: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 20:53:45] >>> Attempt 73: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 20:55:23] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 20:55:23] >>> Attempt 73: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 21:05:26] >>> Attempt 74: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 21:07:02] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 21:07:02] >>> Attempt 74: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 21:17:06] >>> Attempt 75: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 21:18:43] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 21:18:43] >>> Attempt 75: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 21:28:46] >>> Attempt 76: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 21:30:23] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 21:30:23] >>> Attempt 76: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 173 attempts logged
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Provisioned architecture

infrastructure.json
{
  "provider": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure",
  "region": "af-johannesburg-1",
  "compute": "VM.Standard.A1.Flex / 4 OCPUs / 24 GB",
  "network": "VCN / subnet / internet gateway / route table",
  "delivery": "Ubuntu / nginx / Cloudflare HTTPS"
}