[tiwil]

I'm not so sure about that assertion, but would love one of P4V sponsors confirm that for us. As a powered-down VPS doesn't exist!

A VPS only exist when it's 1-created and 2-powered on. Thus if it's powered down or it's not even set yet, then it doesn't exit. A VPS is just a process created by QEMU/KVM during the boot up process and the promised resources get set/reserved for it to be used while in a running state. During shutdown, the process representing the VM/VPS gets destroyed and all the used resources gets claimed by the Host once again.

Since the sponsor already commited to sponsor to Post4VPS, they have to spare some resources for VPS at Post4VPS. It's true that the resources are not used when VPS is not yet created, but they have to leave it available for us. So whenever our admin create one it'll go through perfectly.

The sponsors here don't benefit anything with the non-existent VPS but they should spare some. They can sell it to someone else and get money or sponsor it here and someone grab it, then they gain exposure from the holders.

If I'm not mistaken, hoster that uses OpenVZ, for some sort of reason that I don't really know, can use all the resources available up to their limit. On the other hand, KVM cannot. All VPS are fixed and they cannot use other VPS' resources. That's why hoster cannot sell the unused resource that they sponsor to us.