Ordered a KVM from RackNerd at 09:00. "Instant provisioning." 13:00, still no IP. Support ticket: "IP justification backlog."
This is not instant. This is OpenVZ-grade fiction with a KVM price tag. Virtualization tax already stings; time tax is unacceptable. My previous HostHatch deploy: 8 minutes. Kernel booted, cgroup limits applied, virtio net up.
Four hours for IP allocation suggests either IPv4 scarcity theater or manual allocation pretending to be automation. Which is it?