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) 169
[2026-09-19 14:37:05] >>> Attempt 164: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 14:38:42] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 14:38:42] >>> Attempt 164: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 14:48:48] >>> Attempt 165: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 14:50:25] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 14:50:25] >>> Attempt 165: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 15:00:30] >>> Attempt 166: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 15:02:08] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 15:02:08] >>> Attempt 166: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 15:12:13] >>> Attempt 167: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 15:13:51] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 15:13:51] >>> Attempt 167: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 15:23:58] >>> Attempt 168: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 15:25:36] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 15:25:36] >>> Attempt 168: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
[2026-09-19 15:35:42] >>> Attempt 169: launching linux-server
[2026-09-19 15:37:19] Launch error: InternalError: Out of host capacity.
[2026-09-19 15:37:19] >>> Attempt 169: launch failed. Retrying in 600s
Retrying every 600s · 359 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"
}