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) 399
[2026-09-21 12:30:38] >>> Attempt 394: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 12:32:14] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 12:32:14] >>> Attempt 394: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 12:42:18] >>> Attempt 395: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 12:43:55] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 12:43:55] >>> Attempt 395: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 12:53:59] >>> Attempt 396: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 12:55:35] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 12:55:35] >>> Attempt 396: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 13:05:39] >>> Attempt 397: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 13:07:16] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 13:07:16] >>> Attempt 397: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 13:17:19] >>> Attempt 398: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 13:18:56] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 13:18:56] >>> Attempt 398: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 13:29:00] >>> Attempt 399: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 13:30:38] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 13:30:38] >>> Attempt 399: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 819 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"
}