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) 522
[2026-09-22 12:18:10] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 12:18:10] >>> Attempt 516: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 12:28:15] >>> Attempt 517: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 12:29:54] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 12:29:54] >>> Attempt 517: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 12:39:57] >>> Attempt 518: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 12:41:35] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 12:41:35] >>> Attempt 518: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 12:51:49] >>> Attempt 519: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 12:53:30] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 12:53:30] >>> Attempt 519: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 13:03:36] >>> Attempt 520: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 13:05:12] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 13:05:12] >>> Attempt 520: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 13:15:17] >>> Attempt 521: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 13:16:55] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 13:16:55] >>> Attempt 521: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 13:27:00] >>> Attempt 522: launching linux-server
Retrying every 600s · 1064 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"
}