I wish for this also but I also know why it can't be that way.  The hosting company is in the business of providing a server in a short time period and can afford to keep them on hand.  Presumably multiple customers will be asking for them and every server they provision means more revenue.<p>Your company is probably not in the hosting business and every server that is deployed is an expense and depending on the level of bureaucracy  (3-4 weeks in your case, 6-8 weeks in mine) it takes time to make sure this expense is budgeted for, make sure there is room (physical, power, bandwidth, etc) in the data center.  I love working for smaller companies because you can cut all that crap out but then smaller companies usually don't have the $ to buy lots of servers.