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) 570
[2026-09-22 21:50:24] >>> Attempt 565: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 21:52:01] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 21:52:01] >>> Attempt 565: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 22:02:05] >>> Attempt 566: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 22:03:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 22:03:42] >>> Attempt 566: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 22:13:47] >>> Attempt 567: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 22:15:25] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 22:15:25] >>> Attempt 567: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 22:25:30] >>> Attempt 568: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 22:27:06] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 22:27:06] >>> Attempt 568: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 22:37:10] >>> Attempt 569: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 22:38:47] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 22:38:47] >>> Attempt 569: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 22:48:52] >>> Attempt 570: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 22:50:28] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 22:50:28] >>> Attempt 570: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 1161 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"
}