Once upon a time I worked at major hosted server provider. Our accounting and billing systems were so dysfunctional we had no method of closing out unused serve

Once upon a time I worked at major hosted server provider. Our accounting and billing systems were so dysfunctional we had no method of closing out unused servers to let them be re-used for new customers. In short we were building new servers every time a new order came in and when a customer cancelled or stopped paying their server would continue to sit idle. An audit was eventually run and something like 25% of our tens of thousands of servers were simply sitting there waiting for a new client. I think at this point our billing developer was fired but this was so long ago the details have become fuzzy.