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"Personal use" does not in any way imply "no servers."

Nor does using/having/needing/running a server imply business use.

Right - which is why a personal use server such as your home music collection or Roku, or a COD server on Xbox is fine. Email for 500 people, running the next eBay, or co-locating boxes for people, isn't.

I agree. Which is why most TOS make sense when aimed that way. Sadly some ISPs find it easier to make broad legal strokes to cover their backsides later on.

For example: I run my own email server from my basement. Who uses it? Me. Maybe my dog... but mainly just me. Yes, it is technically a server, so yes technically my ISP could shut me down... but with a daily throughput of what, 10mB? I doubt it.

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