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) 460
[2026-09-22 00:23:35] >>> Attempt 455: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 00:25:12] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 00:25:12] >>> Attempt 455: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 00:35:16] >>> Attempt 456: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 00:36:53] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 00:36:53] >>> Attempt 456: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 00:46:58] >>> Attempt 457: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 00:48:34] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 00:48:34] >>> Attempt 457: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 00:58:38] >>> Attempt 458: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 01:00:15] Launch error: TooManyRequests: Too many requests for the user
[2026-09-22 01:00:15] >>> Attempt 458: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 01:10:19] >>> Attempt 459: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 01:11:56] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 01:11:56] >>> Attempt 459: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 01:22:00] >>> Attempt 460: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 01:23:37] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 01:23:37] >>> Attempt 460: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 941 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"
}