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) 501
[2026-09-22 08:12:43] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 08:12:43] >>> Attempt 495: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 08:22:49] >>> Attempt 496: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 08:24:27] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 08:24:27] >>> Attempt 496: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 08:34:30] >>> Attempt 497: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 08:36:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 08:36:08] >>> Attempt 497: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 08:46:12] >>> Attempt 498: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 08:47:49] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 08:47:49] >>> Attempt 498: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 08:57:52] >>> Attempt 499: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 08:59:32] Launch error: TooManyRequests: Too many requests for the user
[2026-09-22 08:59:32] >>> Attempt 499: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 09:09:35] >>> Attempt 500: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 09:11:11] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 09:11:11] >>> Attempt 500: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 09:21:15] >>> Attempt 501: launching linux-server
Retrying every 600s · 1022 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"
}