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) 472
[2026-09-22 02:43:50] >>> Attempt 467: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 02:45:27] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 02:45:27] >>> Attempt 467: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 02:55:30] >>> Attempt 468: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 02:57:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 02:57:08] >>> Attempt 468: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 03:07:12] >>> Attempt 469: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 03:08:49] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 03:08:49] >>> Attempt 469: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 03:18:53] >>> Attempt 470: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 03:20:30] Launch error: TooManyRequests: Too many requests for the user
[2026-09-22 03:20:30] >>> Attempt 470: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 03:30:34] >>> Attempt 471: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 03:32:12] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 03:32:12] >>> Attempt 471: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-22 03:42:15] >>> Attempt 472: launching linux-server
[2026-09-22 03:43:52] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-22 03:43:52] >>> Attempt 472: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 965 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"
}