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Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-)

Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

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Did it happen to you on a VC1 (now Start-XXX) ? These are virtual servers.

No, I've only ever used their baremetal offerings (C1 and C2s). Sans the few oddities, I think they're quite good for the price, at least for various toy/sandbox stuff. It could be that this kind of situation can't happen on VC1 (Start-XXX) - as I wrote, I'm not sure.

More details are needed, it looks like a good story.

Well, I don't exactly remember what I was doing (it was, like, an year ago or so), but I've de-provisioned a C1 to temporarily release its system volume as I wanted to attach it to another server (to make changes there). IIRC, I've messed up my root partition a little bit, had some nbd issues with recovery kernel, and decided to just reattach the volume to another C1 instead. And then, basically, what I wrote - someone got lucky and got the computing resources I've freed, so I wasn't able to spin things up.

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