> the local electric and water companies are not allowed to turn off your service as long as you are paying the bill.

Public utilities are required to guarantee service as a condition of the monopoly granted them by the state. The server hosting market isn't a monopoly at all, let alone one mandated by the state.

Maybe your point does stand at the ISP level. It probably should since in most places there are just a couple of them, and Internet access is close enough to essential today.

https://www.nclc.org/images/pdf/older_consumers/consumer_fac...