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) 490
[2026-09-22 06:14:06] >>> Attempt 485: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 06:15:43] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 06:15:43] >>> Attempt 485: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 06:25:48] >>> Attempt 486: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 06:27:27] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 06:27:27] >>> Attempt 486: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 06:37:36] >>> Attempt 487: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 06:39:16] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 06:39:16] >>> Attempt 487: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 06:49:21] >>> Attempt 488: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 06:50:56] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 06:50:56] >>> Attempt 488: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 07:01:01] >>> Attempt 489: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 07:02:37] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 07:02:37] >>> Attempt 489: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 07:12:42] >>> Attempt 490: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 07:14:20] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 07:14:20] >>> Attempt 490: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 1001 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"
}