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) 366
[2026-09-21 05:55:09] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 05:55:09] >>> Attempt 360: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 06:05:13] >>> Attempt 361: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 06:06:50] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 06:06:50] >>> Attempt 361: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 06:16:54] >>> Attempt 362: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 06:18:32] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 06:18:32] >>> Attempt 362: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 06:28:39] >>> Attempt 363: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 06:30:17] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 06:30:17] >>> Attempt 363: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 06:40:20] >>> Attempt 364: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 06:41:57] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 06:41:57] >>> Attempt 364: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 06:52:01] >>> Attempt 365: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 06:53:38] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 06:53:38] >>> Attempt 365: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 07:03:41] >>> Attempt 366: launching linux-server
Retrying every 600s · 752 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"
}