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) 441
[2026-09-21 20:41:45] >>> Attempt 436: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 20:43:21] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 20:43:21] >>> Attempt 436: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 20:53:25] >>> Attempt 437: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 20:55:02] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 20:55:02] >>> Attempt 437: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 21:05:05] >>> Attempt 438: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 21:06:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 21:06:42] >>> Attempt 438: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 21:16:45] >>> Attempt 439: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 21:18:22] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 21:18:22] >>> Attempt 439: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 21:28:25] >>> Attempt 440: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 21:30:02] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 21:30:02] >>> Attempt 440: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-21 21:40:06] >>> Attempt 441: launching linux-server
[2026-09-21 21:41:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-21 21:41:42] >>> Attempt 441: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 903 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"
}