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) 586
[2026-09-23 00:57:37] >>> Attempt 581: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 00:59:15] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 00:59:15] >>> Attempt 581: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 01:09:19] >>> Attempt 582: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 01:10:57] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 01:10:57] >>> Attempt 582: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 01:21:01] >>> Attempt 583: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 01:22:38] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 01:22:38] >>> Attempt 583: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 01:32:42] >>> Attempt 584: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 01:34:19] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 01:34:19] >>> Attempt 584: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 01:44:23] >>> Attempt 585: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 01:46:00] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 01:46:00] >>> Attempt 585: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 01:56:04] >>> Attempt 586: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 01:57:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 01:57:42] >>> Attempt 586: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 1193 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"
}