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) 606
[2026-09-23 04:51:33] >>> Attempt 601: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 04:53:10] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 04:53:10] >>> Attempt 601: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 05:03:14] >>> Attempt 602: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 05:04:51] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 05:04:51] >>> Attempt 602: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 05:14:55] >>> Attempt 603: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 05:16:31] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 05:16:31] >>> Attempt 603: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 05:26:35] >>> Attempt 604: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 05:28:13] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 05:28:13] >>> Attempt 604: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 05:38:16] >>> Attempt 605: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 05:39:54] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 05:39:54] >>> Attempt 605: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-23 05:49:58] >>> Attempt 606: launching linux-server
[2026-09-23 05:51:35] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-23 05:51:35] >>> Attempt 606: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 1233 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"
}