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) 451
[2026-09-21 22:38:27] >>> Attempt 446: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 22:40:05] Launch error: TooManyRequests: Too many requests for the user
[2026-09-21 22:40:05] >>> Attempt 446: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 22:50:09] >>> Attempt 447: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 22:51:46] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 22:51:46] >>> Attempt 447: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 23:01:50] >>> Attempt 448: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 23:03:28] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 23:03:28] >>> Attempt 448: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 23:13:31] >>> Attempt 449: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 23:15:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 23:15:08] >>> Attempt 449: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 23:25:12] >>> Attempt 450: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 23:26:48] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 23:26:48] >>> Attempt 450: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 23:36:52] >>> Attempt 451: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 23:38:29] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 23:38:29] >>> Attempt 451: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 923 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"
}