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) 159
[2026-09-19 12:40:08] >>> Attempt 154: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 12:41:47] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 12:41:47] >>> Attempt 154: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 12:51:52] >>> Attempt 155: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 12:53:30] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 12:53:30] >>> Attempt 155: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 13:03:34] >>> Attempt 156: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 13:05:10] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 13:05:10] >>> Attempt 156: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 13:15:14] >>> Attempt 157: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 13:16:52] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 13:16:52] >>> Attempt 157: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 13:26:56] >>> Attempt 158: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 13:28:33] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 13:28:33] >>> Attempt 158: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 13:38:37] >>> Attempt 159: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 13:40:14] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 13:40:14] >>> Attempt 159: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 339 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"
}