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) 532
[2026-09-22 14:25:30] >>> Attempt 527: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 14:27:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 14:27:08] >>> Attempt 527: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 14:37:13] >>> Attempt 528: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 14:38:51] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 14:38:51] >>> Attempt 528: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 14:48:56] >>> Attempt 529: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 14:50:33] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 14:50:33] >>> Attempt 529: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 15:00:38] >>> Attempt 530: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 15:02:17] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 15:02:17] >>> Attempt 530: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 15:12:22] >>> Attempt 531: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 15:13:59] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 15:13:59] >>> Attempt 531: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 15:24:04] >>> Attempt 532: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 15:25:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 15:25:42] >>> Attempt 532: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 1085 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"
}