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) 139
[2026-09-19 08:46:11] >>> Attempt 134: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 08:47:49] Launch error: TooManyRequests: Too many requests for the user
[2026-09-19 08:47:49] >>> Attempt 134: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 08:57:53] >>> Attempt 135: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 08:59:29] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 08:59:29] >>> Attempt 135: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 09:09:34] >>> Attempt 136: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 09:11:11] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 09:11:11] >>> Attempt 136: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 09:21:16] >>> Attempt 137: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 09:22:53] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 09:22:53] >>> Attempt 137: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 09:32:58] >>> Attempt 138: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 09:34:36] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 09:34:36] >>> Attempt 138: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 09:44:41] >>> Attempt 139: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 09:46:18] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 09:46:18] >>> Attempt 139: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 299 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"
}