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) 180
[2026-09-19 16:45:48] >>> Attempt 175: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 16:47:25] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 16:47:25] >>> Attempt 175: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 16:57:29] >>> Attempt 176: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 16:59:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 16:59:08] >>> Attempt 176: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 17:09:11] >>> Attempt 177: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 17:10:48] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 17:10:48] >>> Attempt 177: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 17:20:51] >>> Attempt 178: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 17:22:28] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 17:22:28] >>> Attempt 178: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 17:32:32] >>> Attempt 179: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 17:34:10] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 17:34:10] >>> Attempt 179: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 17:44:13] >>> Attempt 180: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 17:45:50] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 17:45:50] >>> Attempt 180: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 381 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"
}