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) 46
[2026-09-18 14:39:56] >>> Attempt 41: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 14:41:33] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 14:41:33] >>> Attempt 41: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 14:51:37] >>> Attempt 42: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 14:53:15] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 14:53:15] >>> Attempt 42: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 15:03:20] >>> Attempt 43: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 15:04:58] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 15:04:58] >>> Attempt 43: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 15:15:02] >>> Attempt 44: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 15:16:38] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 15:16:38] >>> Attempt 44: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 15:26:42] >>> Attempt 45: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 15:28:19] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 15:28:19] >>> Attempt 45: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-18 15:38:22] >>> Attempt 46: launching linux-server
[2026-09-18 15:40:00] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-18 15:40:00] >>> Attempt 46: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 113 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"
}